Guest IRQ race condition?

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I'm wondering if this race condition is possible,
where guest may receive some interrupt after disable_irq()
for that interrupt has completed. Considering couple
vCPUs on different cores - 

1.vCPU0 has the pending bit set for some IRQ while holding 
dist->lock - injected from QEMU (kvm_vgic_irq_line())
2. KVM while holding dist->lock for vCPU0 programs the LR and is 
ready to resume Guest - after __kvm_vgic_flush_hwstate()
3. Before vCPU0 enters Guest mode, Guest on vCPU1 disables that IRQ,
with dist->lock held - handle_mmio_clear_enable_reg()
4. It appears possible for vCPU1 to re-enter Guest mode before 
vCPU0.

- Mario

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