Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Stop injecting the MSI occurrence twice

[Auger Eric]

Hi Shanker,
On 03/02/2017 03:30, Shanker Donthineni wrote:
> The IRQFD framework calls the architecture dependent function
> twice if the corresponding GSI type is edge triggered. For ARM,
> the function kvm_set_msi() is getting called twice whenever the
> IRQFD receives the event signal. The rest of the code path is
> trying to inject the MSI without any validation checks. No need
> to call the function vgic_its_inject_msi() second time to avoid
> an unnecessary overhead in IRQ queue logic. It also avoids the
> possibility of VM seeing the MSI twice.
> 
> Simple fix, return -1 if the argument 'level' value is zero.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for catching that bug!

Eric
> ---
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-irqfd.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-irqfd.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-irqfd.c
> index d918dcf..f138ed2 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-irqfd.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-irqfd.c
> @@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ int kvm_set_msi(struct kvm_kernel_irq_routing_entry *e,
>  	if (!vgic_has_its(kvm))
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  
> +	if (!level)
> +		return -1;
> +
>  	return vgic_its_inject_msi(kvm, &msi);
>  }
>  
>