Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: irqfd: Postpone resamplefd notify for oneshot interrupts

[Dmytro Maluka]

On 7/15/22 17:59, Dmytro Maluka wrote:
> The existing KVM mechanism for forwarding of level-triggered interrupts
> using resample eventfd doesn't work quite correctly in the case of
> interrupts that are handled in a Linux guest as oneshot interrupts
> (IRQF_ONESHOT). Such an interrupt is acked to the device in its
> threaded irq handler, i.e. later than it is acked to the interrupt
> controller (EOI at the end of hardirq), not earlier.
> 
> Linux keeps such interrupt masked until its threaded handler finishes,
> to prevent the EOI from re-asserting an unacknowledged interrupt.
> However, with KVM + vfio (or whatever is listening on the resamplefd)
> we don't check that the interrupt is still masked in the guest at the
> moment of EOI. Resamplefd is notified regardless, so vfio prematurely
> unmasks the host physical IRQ, thus a new (unwanted) physical interrupt
> is generated in the host and queued for injection to the guest.
> 
> The fact that the virtual IRQ is still masked doesn't prevent this new
> physical IRQ from being propagated to the guest, because:
> 
> 1. It is not guaranteed that the vIRQ will remain masked by the time
>    when vfio signals the trigger eventfd.
> 2. KVM marks this IRQ as pending (e.g. setting its bit in the virtual
>    IRR register of IOAPIC on x86), so after the vIRQ is unmasked, this
>    new pending interrupt is injected by KVM to the guest anyway.
> 
> There are observed at least 2 user-visible issues caused by those
> extra erroneous pending interrupts for oneshot irq in the guest:
> 
> 1. System suspend aborted due to a pending wakeup interrupt from
>    ChromeOS EC (drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec.c).
> 2. Annoying "invalid report id data" errors from ELAN0000 touchpad
>    (drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c), flooding the guest dmesg
>    every time the touchpad is touched.
> 
> This patch fixes the issue on x86 by checking if the interrupt is
> unmasked when we receive irq ack (EOI) and, in case if it's masked,
> postponing resamplefd notify until the guest unmasks it.
> 
> Important notes:
> 
> 1. It doesn't fix the issue for other archs yet, due to some missing
>    KVM functionality needed by this patch:
>      - calling mask notifiers is implemented for x86 only
>      - irqchip ->is_masked() is implemented for x86 only
> 
> 2. It introduces an additional spinlock locking in the resample notify
>    path, since we are no longer just traversing an RCU list of irqfds
>    but also updating the resampler state. Hopefully this locking won't
>    noticeably slow down anything for anyone.
> 
> Regarding #2, there may be an alternative solution worth considering:
> extend KVM irqfd (userspace) API to send mask and unmask notifications
> directly to vfio/whatever, in addition to resample notifications, to
> let vfio check the irq state on its own. There is already locking on
> vfio side (see e.g. vfio_platform_unmask()), so this way we would avoid
> introducing any additional locking. Also such mask/unmask notifications
> could be useful for other cases.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/31420943-8c5f-125c-a5ee-d2fde2700083@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dmytro Maluka <dmy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/kvm_irqfd.h | 14 ++++++++++++
>  virt/kvm/eventfd.c        | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_irqfd.h b/include/linux/kvm_irqfd.h
> index dac047abdba7..01754a1abb9e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kvm_irqfd.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kvm_irqfd.h
> @@ -19,6 +19,16 @@
>   * resamplefd.  All resamplers on the same gsi are de-asserted
>   * together, so we don't need to track the state of each individual
>   * user.  We can also therefore share the same irq source ID.
> + *
> + * A special case is when the interrupt is still masked at the moment
> + * an irq ack is received. That likely means that the interrupt has
> + * been acknowledged to the interrupt controller but not acknowledged
> + * to the device yet, e.g. it might be a Linux guest's threaded
> + * oneshot interrupt (IRQF_ONESHOT). In this case notifying through
> + * resamplefd is postponed until the guest unmasks the interrupt,
> + * which is detected through the irq mask notifier. This prevents
> + * erroneous extra interrupts caused by premature re-assert of an
> + * unacknowledged interrupt by the resamplefd listener.
>   */
>  struct kvm_kernel_irqfd_resampler {
>  	struct kvm *kvm;
> @@ -28,6 +38,10 @@ struct kvm_kernel_irqfd_resampler {
>  	 */
>  	struct list_head list;
>  	struct kvm_irq_ack_notifier notifier;
> +	struct kvm_irq_mask_notifier mask_notifier;
> +	bool masked;
> +	bool pending;
> +	spinlock_t lock;
>  	/*
>  	 * Entry in list of kvm->irqfd.resampler_list.  Use for sharing
>  	 * resamplers among irqfds on the same gsi.
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
> index 50ddb1d1a7f0..9ff47ac33790 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
> @@ -75,6 +75,44 @@ irqfd_resampler_ack(struct kvm_irq_ack_notifier *kian)
>  	kvm_set_irq(kvm, KVM_IRQFD_RESAMPLE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID,
>  		    resampler->notifier.gsi, 0, false);
>  
> +	spin_lock(&resampler->lock);
> +	if (resampler->masked) {
> +		resampler->pending = true;
> +		spin_unlock(&resampler->lock);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +	spin_unlock(&resampler->lock);
> +
> +	idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->irq_srcu);
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry_srcu(irqfd, &resampler->list, resampler_link,
> +	    srcu_read_lock_held(&kvm->irq_srcu))
> +		eventfd_signal(irqfd->resamplefd, 1);
> +
> +	srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->irq_srcu, idx);
> +}
> +
> +static void
> +irqfd_resampler_mask(struct kvm_irq_mask_notifier *kimn, bool masked)
> +{
> +	struct kvm_kernel_irqfd_resampler *resampler;
> +	struct kvm *kvm;
> +	struct kvm_kernel_irqfd *irqfd;
> +	int idx;
> +
> +	resampler = container_of(kimn,
> +			struct kvm_kernel_irqfd_resampler, mask_notifier);
> +	kvm = resampler->kvm;
> +
> +	spin_lock(&resampler->lock);
> +	resampler->masked = masked;
> +	if (masked || !resampler->pending) {
> +		spin_unlock(&resampler->lock);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +	resampler->pending = false;
> +	spin_unlock(&resampler->lock);
> +
>  	idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->irq_srcu);
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry_srcu(irqfd, &resampler->list, resampler_link,
> @@ -98,6 +136,8 @@ irqfd_resampler_shutdown(struct kvm_kernel_irqfd *irqfd)
>  	if (list_empty(&resampler->list)) {
>  		list_del(&resampler->link);
>  		kvm_unregister_irq_ack_notifier(kvm, &resampler->notifier);
> +		kvm_unregister_irq_mask_notifier(kvm, resampler->mask_notifier.irq,
> +						 &resampler->mask_notifier);
>  		kvm_set_irq(kvm, KVM_IRQFD_RESAMPLE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID,
>  			    resampler->notifier.gsi, 0, false);
>  		kfree(resampler);
> @@ -367,11 +407,16 @@ kvm_irqfd_assign(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_irqfd *args)
>  			INIT_LIST_HEAD(&resampler->list);
>  			resampler->notifier.gsi = irqfd->gsi;
>  			resampler->notifier.irq_acked = irqfd_resampler_ack;
> +			resampler->mask_notifier.func = irqfd_resampler_mask;
> +			kvm_irq_is_masked(kvm, irqfd->gsi, &resampler->masked);
> +			spin_lock_init(&resampler->lock);
>  			INIT_LIST_HEAD(&resampler->link);
>  
>  			list_add(&resampler->link, &kvm->irqfds.resampler_list);
>  			kvm_register_irq_ack_notifier(kvm,
>  						      &resampler->notifier);
> +			kvm_register_irq_mask_notifier(kvm, irqfd->gsi,
> +						       &resampler->mask_notifier);

I realized this is a bit racy: we may miss a mask or unmask event just
before kvm_register_irq_ack_notifier(), so irqfd_resampler_ack() may
see an outdated irq mask state.

Moving kvm_register_irq_mask_notifier() before
kvm_register_irq_ack_notifier() isn't enough, since a mask or unmask
may still happen just before kvm_register_irq_mask_notifier().

This race can be avoided by moving also resampler->masked initialization
(kvm_irq_is_masked()) after kvm_register_irq_mask_notifier(). But then
kvm_irq_is_masked() would need to be called under resampler->lock,
which could cause a deadlock, since kvm_irq_is_masked() locks
ioapic->lock while irqfd_resampler_mask() is called under ioapic->lock
(or correspondingly pic->lock).

So for v2 I'm considering replacing kvm_irq_is_masked() with a function
like the following, for registering & initializing mask notifier in a
presumably race-free deadlock-free way. (The below is just a sketch
showing the locking order; the actual code would be more complicated
due to irq -> pin mapping etc.)

void kvm_register_and_fire_irq_mask_notifier(struct kvm *kvm, int irq,
                                             struct kvm_irq_mask_notifier *kimn)
{
        struct kvm_pic *pic = kvm->arch.vpic;
        struct kvm_ioapic *ioapic = kvm->arch.vioapic;
        bool masked;

        mutex_lock(&kvm->irq_lock);
        spin_lock(&pic->lock);
        spin_lock(&ioapic->lock);

        kimn->irq = irq;
        hlist_add_head_rcu(&kimn->link, &kvm->arch.mask_notifier_list);

        masked = kvm_pic_irq_is_masked(pic, irq) &&
                 kvm_ioapic_irq_is_masked(ioapic, irq);
        kimn->func(kimn, masked);

        spin_unlock(&ioapic->lock);
        spin_unlock(&pic->lock);
        mutex_unlock(&kvm->irq_lock);
}


This implies that I'll probably go with moving the mask notifiers stuff
back to x86-specific code, and just add a weak no-op version for other
architectures.

Thanks,
Dmytro

>  			irqfd->resampler = resampler;
>  		}
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