[PATCH 3/5] KVM: Move check for existing vCPU ID to the top of vCPU creation
From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 14:41:31 EST
Now that kvm->lock is held for the entirety of vCPU creation, check for a
conflicting vCPU ID at the begnning of vCPU creation, before the arch
precreate() hook is invoked. This will allow reverting commit 97d65b544f48
("KVM: Check for duplicate vcpu_id as early as possible"). For now, keep
the redundant vcpu_ids tracking as a sanity check.
No functional change intended (absent KVM bugs, checking vcpu_ids and
walking kvm_get_vcpu_by_id() should yield the same result).
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index c17cc8dd371b..d5524ac8c5cf 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -4182,7 +4182,10 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long id)
if (kvm->created_vcpus >= kvm->max_vcpus)
return -EINVAL;
- if (test_bit(id, kvm->vcpu_ids))
+ if (kvm_get_vcpu_by_id(kvm, id))
+ return -EEXIST;
+
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(test_bit(id, kvm->vcpu_ids)))
return -EEXIST;
r = kvm_arch_vcpu_precreate(kvm, id);
@@ -4221,11 +4224,6 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long id)
goto arch_vcpu_destroy;
}
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(kvm_get_vcpu_by_id(kvm, id))) {
- r = -EEXIST;
- goto unlock_vcpu_destroy;
- }
-
/*
* Set the vCPU's index *before* the vCPU is reachable by other tasks.
* Unwind the index back to -1 on failure so that KVM can use the index
--
2.55.0.1032.g73a4cd73de-goog