As it stands, nothing prevents userspace from injecting an interrupt before the guest's GIC is actually initialized. This goes unnoticed so far (as everything is pretty much statically allocated), but ends up exploding in a spectacular way once we switch to a more dynamic allocation (the GIC data structure isn't there yet). The fix is to test for the "ready" flag in the VGIC distributor before trying to inject the interrupt. Note that in order to avoid breaking userspace, we have to ignore what is essentially an error. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx> --- virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c index 795ab48..c6da748 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c @@ -1446,7 +1446,8 @@ out: int kvm_vgic_inject_irq(struct kvm *kvm, int cpuid, unsigned int irq_num, bool level) { - if (vgic_update_irq_state(kvm, cpuid, irq_num, level)) + if (likely(vgic_initialized(kvm)) && + vgic_update_irq_state(kvm, cpuid, irq_num, level)) vgic_kick_vcpus(kvm); return 0; -- 1.8.3.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html