[PATCH] KVM: Delete guest-triggerable (in theory) BUG_ON() in ioeventfd datamatch
From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue May 26 2026 - 20:29:18 EST
Drop a BUG_ON() that has been reachable since it was first added, way back
in 2009.
For a given store, KVM tracks the entire value in the destination operand,
x86_emulate_ctxt.dst. If the destination is memory, and the target splits
multiple pages and/or is emulated MMIO, then KVM handles each fragment
independently. E.g. on a page split starting at page offset 0xffc, KVM
writes 4 bytes to the first page, then the remaining bytes to the second
page, using ctxt->dst as the source for both (with appropriate offsets).
If the destination splits a page *and* hits emulated MMIO on the second
page, then KVM will complete the write to the first page, then emulate the
MMIO access to the second page. If there is a datamatch-enabled ioeventfd
at offset 0 of the second page, then KVM will process the remainder of the
store as a potential ioeventfd signal.
Putting it all together, if the guest emits a store that splits a page
starting at page offset N, and the second page has a datamatch-enabled
ioeventfd at offset 0, then KVM will check for datamatch using
&dst.valptr[N] as the source. Due to dst (and thus dst.valptr) being
32-byte aligned, if N is not aligned to @len, the BUG_ON() fires.
E.g. with a 16-byte store at page offset 0xffc, to an ioeventfd of len 8,
all initial checks in ioeventfd_in_range() will succeed, and the BUG_ON()
fires due to @val being 4-byte aligned, but not 8-byte aligned.
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kernel BUG at arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/eventfd.c:783!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 615 Comm: repro Not tainted 7.1.0-rc2-ff238429d1ea #365 PREEMPT
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
RIP: 0010:ioeventfd_write+0x6c/0x70 [kvm]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__kvm_io_bus_write+0x85/0xb0 [kvm]
kvm_io_bus_write+0x53/0x80 [kvm]
vcpu_mmio_write+0x66/0xf0 [kvm]
emulator_read_write_onepage+0x12a/0x540 [kvm]
emulator_read_write+0x109/0x2b0 [kvm]
x86_emulate_insn+0x4f8/0xfb0 [kvm]
x86_emulate_instruction+0x181/0x790 [kvm]
kvm_mmu_page_fault+0x313/0x630 [kvm]
vmx_handle_exit+0x18a/0x590 [kvm_intel]
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xc81/0x1c90 [kvm]
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x2d5/0x970 [kvm]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xd0
do_syscall_64+0xb7/0x890
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
RIP: 0033:0x7f19c931a9bf
</TASK>
Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Simply delete the BUG_ON(), as KVM x86 doesn't perform alignment checks on
"normal" memory accesses at CPL0, i.e. the BUG_ON() doesn't actually guard
against any badness (presumably it was a sanity check).
Fixes: d34e6b175e61 ("KVM: add ioeventfd support")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
index 0e8b8a2c5b79..d631a86103bb 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
@@ -779,9 +779,6 @@ ioeventfd_in_range(struct _ioeventfd *p, gpa_t addr, int len, const void *val)
return true;
/* otherwise, we have to actually compare the data */
-
- BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)val, len));
-
switch (len) {
case 1:
_val = *(u8 *)val;
base-commit: 66939c1603bd5579e63278f9dc72cba5b79da9b5
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2.54.0.823.g6e5bcc1fc9-goog