[PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: Skip unreset vCPUs in MPIDR lookup table

From: fuqiang wang

Date: Thu Jun 11 2026 - 05:12:13 EST


When a VM is created with CPU hotplug support, kvm_for_each_vcpu() can
walk vCPUs that have not been reset yet. Their MPIDR_EL1 state is still
zero, which aliases vCPU0 when populating the compressed MPIDR lookup
table.

As a result, cmpidr_to_idx[0] can be overwritten with the index of an
unreset vCPU. A lookup for MPIDR 0 then returns the wrong vCPU, which
can prevent interrupts targeting vCPU0 from being delivered correctly
and make guest boot extremely slow.

Skip vCPUs whose MPIDR_EL1 value does not have the RES1 bit set.

Fixes: 5544750efd51 ("KVM: arm64: Build MPIDR to vcpu index cache at runtime")
Signed-off-by: fuqiang wang <fuqiang.wng@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 9 +++++++++
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
index 5bf3d7e1d92c..8158e88aaa4e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
@@ -506,6 +506,15 @@ static inline unsigned long kvm_vcpu_get_mpidr_aff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return __vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, MPIDR_EL1) & MPIDR_HWID_BITMASK;
}

+/*
+ * Check if MPIDR matches hardware reset value. RES1 bits are set after reset,
+ * while a zero default indicates a vCPU that has not been reset.
+ */
+static inline bool kvm_vcpu_mpidr_is_reset(u64 val)
+{
+ return (val & MIDR_RES1_MASK) == MIDR_RES1_MASK;
+}
+
static inline void kvm_vcpu_set_be(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
if (vcpu_mode_is_32bit(vcpu)) {
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index 3732ee9eb0d4..b47088201683 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -890,6 +890,16 @@ static void kvm_init_mpidr_data(struct kvm *kvm)
u64 aff = kvm_vcpu_get_mpidr_aff(vcpu);
u16 index = kvm_mpidr_index(data, aff);

+ /*
+ * In the CPU hot-plug scenario, the kvm_for_each_vcpu() macro
+ * iterates over all possible vcpus. For vcpus that are not
+ * reset, kvm_vcpu_get_mpidr_aff() returns 0, then the index
+ * computed by kvm_mpidr_index() will also be 0, thereby
+ * overwriting the original value of vcpu0.
+ */
+ if (!kvm_vcpu_mpidr_is_reset(aff))
+ continue;
+
data->cmpidr_to_idx[index] = c;
}

--
2.47.0