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From: zjamg <ndaugoing@gmail.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
Cc: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>,
	Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
	Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Yuchao Zhang <ndaugoing@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] KVM: arm64: vgic: fix UAF/crash on remote LPI disable
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:46:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260918024620.83869-1-ndaugoing@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Yuchao Zhang <ndaugoing@gmail.com>

Hi Marc, Oliver, and KVM/arm64 maintainers,

By code inspection of commit 6da5e537f5af ("KVM: arm64: vgic: Pick EOIcount
deactivations from AP-list tail"), a race condition exists when a remote
vCPU disables LPIs while the target vCPU has an in-flight LPI in a List
Register (LR).

Specifically:
- vgic_flush_pending_lpis() unconditionally unlinks all LPIs from ap_list
  without checking whether the interrupt is in an LR (irq->on_lr).
- If the LPI in the LR happened to be the last one populated, the per-CPU
  pointer *host_data_ptr(last_lr_irq) on the target vCPU is left dangling.
- When the target vCPU exits guest mode, vgic_v3_fold_lr_state() starts
  traversing ap_list via list_for_each_entry_continue() from this unlinked,
  poisoned (or freed) last_lr_irq, leading to UAF or an immediate panic
  when locking irq->irq_lock.

Solution & Scope:
This patch prevents unlinking LPIs that are currently on an LR in
vgic_flush_pending_lpis(), ensures *host_data_ptr(last_lr_irq) is cleared
after folding, and skips the ap_list walk when eoicount is zero.

Note: this closes the primary race (the last_lr_irq node itself is no
longer unlinkable while in-flight), but the fold traversal can still
race with a remote flush unlinking a subsequent non-LR node in the
ap_list tail. Fully closing that window needs the fold side to take
references before dropping locks (in the spirit of the prune-side fix
in commit 7258770e5814 ("KVM: arm64: vgic: Handle race between
interrupt affinity change and LPI disabling")) and is left as a
follow-up.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Yuchao Zhang

Yuchao Zhang (1):
  KVM: arm64: vgic: Do not remove in-flight LPIs from AP list on disable

 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v2.c |  3 +++
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c |  3 +++
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.c    | 10 +++++++---
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

-- 
2.53.0

             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-18  2:46 UTC|newest]

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2026-09-18  2:46 zjamg [this message]
2026-09-18  2:46 ` [PATCH 1/1] KVM: arm64: vgic: Do not remove in-flight LPIs from AP list on disable zjamg

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