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If userspace tries to create a vCPU with the same vcpu_id as an existing
one, kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu() checks for that and fails with -EEXIST
only after it already created the vCPU via kvm_arch_vcpu_create(). As a
result, even though this newly created vCPU is destroyed in the failure
path, the fact that it is temporarily created with an invalid vcpu_id
and that there are temporarily two vCPUs with the same vcpu_id is a
potential source of subtle issues.
In particular, this prevents fixing an VMX IPIv issue where a stale entry
left in the VM's PI descriptor table after the vCPU is destroyed in the
failure path. The right way to fix that issue is to clear that entry when
destroying the vCPU, however right now that would have a nasty side effect:
since the same entry is used for the other, previously created vCPU with
same vcpu_id, clearing it would mean effectively disabling IPIv for that
existing good vCPU.
So to avoid this and similar problems, check for duplicate vcpu_id as
early in the vCPU creation path as possible, before
kvm_arch_vcpu_create() and even before kvm_arch_vcpu_precreate().
Simply moving the existing kvm_get_vcpu_by_id() check earlier doesn't work,
as kvm->lock is dropped and reacquired, i.e. moving kvm_get_vcpu_by_id()
would introduce a race:
1. vCPU A is being created but not installed in kvm->vcpu_array yet.
2. vCPU B with the same vcpu_id is being created. It passes the
duplicated vcpu_id check, since the check doesn't find vCPU A in
kvm->vcpu_array.
3. vCPU A is installed in kvm->vcpu_array, vCPU creation succeeds.
4. vCPU B with the same vcpu_id is installed in kvm->vcpu_array, vCPU
creation succeeds.
So introduce the bitmap of vcpu_ids used by the VM, in order to safely
check if the given vcpu_id is used and mark is as used before releasing
kvm->lock first time.
Alternatively, KVM could use another Xarray[*] for roughly the same code
complexity, which would minimize KVM's steady state memory footprint at
the cost of higher runtime latency (to allocate and free entries). Given
that the worst case scenario is 256 bytes per-VM (on x86, which allows up
to 16KiB vCPU IDs), go with the slightly simpler approach until there's a
need to save memory.
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/al6eg7C-2sDBEAFD@google.com [*]
Signed-off-by: Dmytro Maluka <dmaluka@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260729170621.308809-2-dmaluka@chromium.org
[sean: massage changelog]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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