From: Amirmohammad Eftekhar <amirmohammad.eftekhar@cispa.de>
To: <seanjc@google.com>, <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Load the EOI-exit bitmap into vmcs01, not the active VMCS
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:30:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261017093016.32348-2-amirmohammad.eftekhar@cispa.de> (raw)
vmx_load_eoi_exitmap() writes EOI_EXIT_BITMAP0..3 directly with
vmcs_write64() and, unlike its siblings vmx_hwapic_isr_update() and
vmx_sync_pir_to_irr(),
does not take guard(vmx_vmcs01). The EOI-exit bitmap belongs to L1's APIC,
but with nested virtual-interrupt-delivery an L2 can be active when KVM
refreshes it (e.g. via kvm_vcpu_reload_apic_access_page() /
vcpu_scan_ioapic()), so the writes land in vmcs02 instead of vmcs01: L2's
EOI-exit bitmap is corrupted and vmcs01's is left stale until the next L1
refresh.
Add guard(vmx_vmcs01), matching the sibling APICv callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Amirmohammad Eftekhar <amirmohammad.eftekhar@cispa.de>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index b341af4c6..1f802cdbe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -7082,6 +7082,13 @@ void vmx_load_eoi_exitmap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *eoi_exit_bitmap)
if (!kvm_vcpu_apicv_active(vcpu))
return;
+ /*
+ * The EOI-exit bitmap tracks L1's APIC, so it must land in vmcs01, not
+ * whichever VMCS is currently loaded; a nested VID L2 can be active
+ * here. Mirror vmx_hwapic_isr_update()/vmx_sync_pir_to_irr().
+ */
+ guard(vmx_vmcs01)(vcpu);
+
vmcs_write64(EOI_EXIT_BITMAP0, eoi_exit_bitmap[0]);
vmcs_write64(EOI_EXIT_BITMAP1, eoi_exit_bitmap[1]);
vmcs_write64(EOI_EXIT_BITMAP2, eoi_exit_bitmap[2]);
--
2.54.0 (Apple Git-157)
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