From: Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall@arm.com
kvm_timer_update_state() is called when changing the phys timer configuration registers, either via vcpu reset, as a result of a trap from the guest, or when userspace programs the registers.
phys_timer_emulate() is in turn called by kvm_timer_update_state() to either cancel an existing software timer, or program a new software timer, to emulate the behavior of a real phys timer, based on the change in configuration registers.
Unfortunately, the interaction between these two functions left a small race; if the conceptual emulated phys timer should actually fire, but the soft timer hasn't executed its callback yet, we cancel the timer in phys_timer_emulate without injecting an irq. This only happens if the check in kvm_timer_update_state is called before the timer should fire, which is relatively unlikely, but possible.
The solution is to update the state of the phys timer after calling phys_timer_emulate, which will pick up the pending timer state and update the interrupt value.
Note that this leaves the opportunity of raising the interrupt twice, once in the just-programmed soft timer, and once in kvm_timer_update_state. Since this always happens synchronously with the VCPU execution, there is no harm in this, and the guest ever only sees a single timer interrupt.
Cc: Stable stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.15+ Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall@arm.com --- virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c index bd3d57f40f1b..18ff6203079d 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c @@ -295,9 +295,9 @@ static void phys_timer_emulate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) struct arch_timer_context *ptimer = vcpu_ptimer(vcpu);
/* - * If the timer can fire now we have just raised the IRQ line and we - * don't need to have a soft timer scheduled for the future. If the - * timer cannot fire at all, then we also don't need a soft timer. + * If the timer can fire now, we don't need to have a soft timer + * scheduled for the future. If the timer cannot fire at all, + * then we also don't need a soft timer. */ if (kvm_timer_should_fire(ptimer) || !kvm_timer_irq_can_fire(ptimer)) { soft_timer_cancel(&timer->phys_timer, NULL); @@ -332,10 +332,10 @@ static void kvm_timer_update_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) level = kvm_timer_should_fire(vtimer); kvm_timer_update_irq(vcpu, level, vtimer);
+ phys_timer_emulate(vcpu); + if (kvm_timer_should_fire(ptimer) != ptimer->irq.level) kvm_timer_update_irq(vcpu, !ptimer->irq.level, ptimer); - - phys_timer_emulate(vcpu); }
static void vtimer_save_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)