Re: [Patch v2] KVM: x86: Initializing all kvm_lapic_irq fields in ioapic_write_indirect

From: Nitesh Narayan Lal
Date: Fri Mar 13 2020 - 12:01:42 EST



On 3/13/20 9:38 AM, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote:
> On 3/13/20 9:25 AM, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Previously all fields of structure kvm_lapic_irq were not initialized
>>> before it was passed to kvm_bitmap_or_dest_vcpus(). Which will cause
>>> an issue when any of those fields are used for processing a request.
>>> For example not initializing the msi_redir_hint field before passing
>>> to the kvm_bitmap_or_dest_vcpus(), may lead to a misbehavior of
>>> kvm_apic_map_get_dest_lapic(). This will specifically happen when the
>>> kvm_lowest_prio_delivery() returns TRUE due to a non-zero garbage
>>> value of msi_redir_hint, which should not happen as the request belongs
>>> to APIC fixed delivery mode and we do not want to deliver the
>>> interrupt only to the lowest priority candidate.
>>>
>>> This patch initializes all the fields of kvm_lapic_irq based on the
>>> values of ioapic redirect_entry object before passing it on to
>>> kvm_bitmap_or_dest_vcpus().
>>>
>>> Fixes: 7ee30bc132c6("KVM: x86: deliver KVM IOAPIC scan request to target vCPUs")
>>> Signed-off-by: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c | 7 +++++--
>>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c
>>> index 7668fed..3a8467d 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c
>>> @@ -378,12 +378,15 @@ static void ioapic_write_indirect(struct kvm_ioapic *ioapic, u32 val)
>>> if (e->fields.delivery_mode == APIC_DM_FIXED) {
>>> struct kvm_lapic_irq irq;
>>>
>>> - irq.shorthand = APIC_DEST_NOSHORT;
>>> irq.vector = e->fields.vector;
>>> irq.delivery_mode = e->fields.delivery_mode << 8;
>>> - irq.dest_id = e->fields.dest_id;
>>> irq.dest_mode =
>>> kvm_lapic_irq_dest_mode(!!e->fields.dest_mode);
>>> + irq.level = 1;
>> 'level' is bool in struct kvm_lapic_irq but other than that, is there a
>> reason we set it to 'true' here? I understand that any particular
>> setting is likely better than random
> Yes, that is the only reason which I had in my mind while doing this change.
> I was not particularly sure about the value, so I copied what ioapic_serivce()
> is doing.

Do you think I should skip setting this here?

>> and it should actually not be used
>> without setting it first but still?
>>
>>> + irq.trig_mode = e->fields.trig_mode;
>>> + irq.shorthand = APIC_DEST_NOSHORT;
>>> + irq.dest_id = e->fields.dest_id;
>>> + irq.msi_redir_hint = false;
>>> bitmap_zero(&vcpu_bitmap, 16);
>>> kvm_bitmap_or_dest_vcpus(ioapic->kvm, &irq,
>>> &vcpu_bitmap);
--
Nitesh

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