[PATCH v2 1/8] x86/irq: Ensure initial PIR loads are performed exactly once

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Apr 01 2025 - 12:43:36 EST


Ensure the PIR is read exactly once at the start of handle_pending_pir(),
to guarantee that checking for an outstanding posted interrupt in a given
chuck doesn't reload the chunk from the "real" PIR. Functionally, a reload
is benign, but it would defeat the purpose of pre-loading into a copy.

Fixes: 1b03d82ba15e ("x86/irq: Install posted MSI notification handler")
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/irq.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
index feca4f20b06a..85fa2db38dc4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ static __always_inline bool handle_pending_pir(u64 *pir, struct pt_regs *regs)
bool handled = false;

for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
- pir_copy[i] = pir[i];
+ pir_copy[i] = READ_ONCE(pir[i]);

for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
if (!pir_copy[i])
--
2.49.0.472.ge94155a9ec-goog