[PATCH v5 2/2] KVM: arm64: vgic: Mitigate potential LPI registration failure
From: Carlos López
Date: Thu Jul 09 2026 - 11:04:41 EST
Mitigate a potential failure when inserting a new LPI into the VGIC LPI
xarray.
When vgic_add_lpi() is preparing to register a new LPI, it pre-allocates
an xarray entry using xa_reserve_irq(), so that it can later perform the
insertion under the xarray lock without allocating.
However, since xa_reserve_irq() is called before acquiring such lock,
there is a potential race where xa_reserve_irq() observes a populated
entry, thus not performing the allocation, and another CPU removes that
entry before the xarray lock is grabbed to perform the insertion.
CPU0 (Adding new LPI) CPU1 (Releasing LPI)
===================== ===================
vgic_add_lpi()
/* Entry populated, does not allocate */
xa_reserve_irq(.., intid, ..)
vgic_release_deleted_lpis()
xa_lock_irqsave()
vgic_release_lpi_locked()
xarray node freed --> __xa_erase(.., intid)
xa_unlock_irqrestore()
xa_lock_irqsave()
xa_load(.., intid) == NULL
vgic_try_get_irq_ref(NULL) == false
__xa_store(.., intid, irq, 0) <-- xarray node was freed, gfp=0
cannot allocate, returns -ENOMEM
This can happen e.g. if the guest issues a DISCARD while the LPI is
still referenced from a vCPU's active-pending list (ap_list), and the
same INTID is re-mapped via MAPTI.
Mitigate this by passing GFP_NOWAIT to __xa_store(), so that the
allocation can happen under the lock in the rare case that this
condition is hit. Add __GFP_ACCOUNT as well to match xa_reserve_irq()'s
flags.
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 1d6f83f60f79 ("KVM: arm64: vgic: Store LPIs in an xarray")
Signed-off-by: Carlos López <clopez@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c
index 468533245727..eda5692c178f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c
@@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ static struct vgic_irq *vgic_add_lpi(struct kvm *kvm, u32 intid,
* holds before freeing it, as otherwise someone else could still
* hold a pointer to the evicted struct.
*/
- oldirq = __xa_store(&dist->lpi_xa, intid, irq, 0);
+ oldirq = __xa_store(&dist->lpi_xa, intid, irq,
+ GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_ACCOUNT);
ret = xa_err(oldirq);
if (!ret && oldirq &&
!WARN_ON_ONCE(refcount_read(&oldirq->refcount) ||
--
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