[PATCH v2 0/1] KVM: arm64: vgic: fix UAF/crash on remote LPI disable
From: zjamg
Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 00:04:21 EST
From: Yuchao Zhang <ndaugoing@xxxxxxxxx>
Hi Marc, Oliver, and KVM/arm64 maintainers,
By code inspection of commit 6da5e537f5af ("KVM: arm64: vgic: Pick EOIcount
deactivations from AP-list tail"), a race condition exists when a remote
vCPU disables LPIs while the target vCPU has an in-flight LPI in a List
Register (LR).
Specifically:
- vgic_flush_pending_lpis() unconditionally unlinks all LPIs from ap_list
without checking whether the interrupt is in an LR (irq->on_lr).
- If the LPI in the LR happened to be the last one populated, the per-CPU
pointer *host_data_ptr(last_lr_irq) on the target vCPU is left dangling.
- When the target vCPU exits guest mode, vgic_v3_fold_lr_state() starts
traversing ap_list via list_for_each_entry_continue() from this unlinked,
poisoned (or freed) last_lr_irq, leading to UAF or an immediate panic
when locking irq->irq_lock.
Solution & Scope:
This patch prevents unlinking LPIs that are currently on an LR in
vgic_flush_pending_lpis(), ensures *host_data_ptr(last_lr_irq) is cleared
after folding, skips the ap_list walk when eoicount is zero, and prevents
the fold from resurrecting the pending state of an edge LPI once the
redistributor has LPIs disabled.
Note: this closes the primary race (the last_lr_irq node itself is no
longer unlinkable while in-flight), but the fold traversal can still
race with a remote flush unlinking a subsequent non-LR node in the
ap_list tail. Fully closing that window needs the fold side to take
references before dropping locks (in the spirit of the prune-side fix
in commit 7258770e5814 ("KVM: arm64: vgic: Handle race between
interrupt affinity change and LPI disabling")) and is left as a
follow-up.
Changes in v2:
- Added the fold-side guard: vgic_v3_fold_lr() no longer preserves the
pending bit of an edge LPI folded while the redistributor has LPIs
disabled. Without this, a flushed in-flight LPI is resurrected from
the LR pending bit and re-injected while GICR_CTLR.EnableLPIs is 0
(spurious LPI delivery to the guest), since the injection path has no
lpis_enabled gate. Thanks to the Sashiko AI review for pointing this
out.
Yuchao Zhang (1):
KVM: arm64: vgic: Do not remove in-flight LPIs from AP list on disable
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v2.c | 3 +++
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.c | 10 +++++++---
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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