[PATCH 0/4] KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Make the ITS table save reliable

From: Fuad Tabba

Date: Wed Aug 19 2026 - 06:29:57 EST


Hi folks,

Marc pointed out on the v2 ITS series [1] that patch 3 fixed the wrong
end of the problem: KVM should drop the collections when the guest
changes the table that described them, rather than validating them at
save time. He also called that patch's -EINVAL a mistake, since it
aborts a save userspace has to be able to issue. This series does both,
following his answers [2] to the two open questions: purge the whole
list, and skip the offending device rather than fail.

vgic_mmio_write_its_baser() now frees the cached devices or collections
whenever the stored register value changes, not only when VALID is
cleared. It tests for a change rather than a write because the ITS
driver rewrites an unchanged GITS_BASER<n> on resume. With that in place
the check patch 3 added is unreachable, so it is reverted, and
vgic_its_save_device_tables() skips a device the table can no longer
address instead of failing the save.

Note that compute_next_devid_offset() now calls vgic_its_check_id(),
which reads guest memory for an indirect table, so the save does 2n
reads rather than n. It stays linear, as the scan stops at the first
reachable successor. Patch 1's Fixes: tag names a v4.15 commit, so it
will be picked up for stable. Drop the tag if that is not wanted.

Patches 1 and 3 apply to v7.2 unchanged, but patch 2 reverts a commit
only in kvmarm/next, so the series is based there.

Tested on QEMU: the new selftest, vgic_irq, vgic_lpi_stress and boots.
Both cases of the new selftest reset and restore the tables they saved,
and both fail without the series.

Based on kvmarm/next (57e7cf13ac26b).

Cheers,
/fuad

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87ecg9owwa.wl-maz@xxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/86bjaz5s6v.wl-maz@xxxxxxxxxx/

Fuad Tabba (4):
KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Free the caches when GITS_BASER changes
Revert "KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Don't save collections the table cannot
hold"
KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Skip unreachable devices instead of failing the
save
KVM: arm64: selftests: Add ITS table save tests

arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c | 44 +-
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm | 1 +
.../selftests/kvm/arm64/vgic_its_save.c | 441 ++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 467 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/arm64/vgic_its_save.c


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