From: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@google.com>,
Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>,
kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: vgic-v4: Don't allocate vPEs for a GICv2 VM
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:26:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261026152639.3926498-2-fuad.tabba@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261026152639.3926498-1-fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
KVM can run a GICv2 VM on a GICv4.0 host whose CPU interface supports
legacy operation. Such a VM has no LPIs and never uses vPEs, so
vgic_supports_direct_irqs() is false for it and kvm_vgic_dist_destroy()
never tears them down. However, userspace can still create an ITS for
it. Once the vgic is initialised, vgic_its_create() calls
vgic_v4_init(), which allocates the vPEs and requests a doorbell IRQ for
each vCPU. They're then never freed, and each doorbell handler stays
registered with a vCPU that's freed with the VM.
Only allocate vPEs for a GICv3 VM.
Fixes: 74fe55dc9ab77 ("KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Add init/teardown of the per-VM vPE irq domain")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c
index ed236f083f0d7..a01de4de608a6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ int vgic_v4_init(struct kvm *kvm)
lockdep_assert_held(&kvm->arch.config_lock);
- if (!kvm_vgic_global_state.has_gicv4)
+ if (!kvm_vgic_global_state.has_gicv4 || dist->vgic_model != KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3)
return 0; /* Nothing to see here... move along. */
if (dist->its_vm.vpes)
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-26 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-26 15:26 [PATCH 0/2] KVM: arm64: vgic-v4: Don't allocate vPEs that a VM can't use Fuad Tabba
2026-10-26 15:26 ` Fuad Tabba [this message]
2026-10-26 19:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: vgic-v4: Don't allocate vPEs for a GICv2 VM Oliver Upton
2026-10-26 19:55 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-10-26 21:30 ` Oliver Upton
2026-10-27 7:37 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-10-26 15:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: vgic-v4: Don't allocate vPEs when userspace clears nASSGIcap Fuad Tabba
2026-10-26 19:39 ` Oliver Upton
2026-10-27 7:36 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-10-27 22:53 ` Oliver Upton
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