angler-fishThe Vulnerability History Project

KVM: ioapic: break infinite recursion on lazy EOI

      During shutdown the IOAPIC trigger mode is reset to edge triggered
while the vfio-pci INTx is still registered with a resampler.
This allows us to get into an infinite loop:

ioapic_set_irq
  -> ioapic_lazy_update_eoi
  -> kvm_ioapic_update_eoi_one
  -> kvm_notify_acked_irq
  -> kvm_notify_acked_gsi
  -> (via irq_acked fn ptr) irqfd_resampler_ack
  -> kvm_set_irq
  -> (via set fn ptr) kvm_set_ioapic_irq
  -> kvm_ioapic_set_irq
  -> ioapic_set_irq

Commit 8be8f932e3db ("kvm: ioapic: Restrict lazy EOI update to
edge-triggered interrupts", 2020-05-04) acknowledges that this recursion
loop exists and tries to avoid it at the call to ioapic_lazy_update_eoi,
but at this point the scenario is already set, we have an edge interrupt
with resampler on the same gsi.

Fortunately, the only user of irq ack notifiers (in addition to resamplefd)
is i8254 timer interrupt reinjection.  These are edge-triggered, so in
principle they would need the call t
    
commit 77377064c3a94911339f13ce113b3abf265e06da
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