This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v3: Do not use Active+Pending state for a HW interrupt to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kvm-arm-arm64-vgic-v3-do-not-use-active-pending-state-for-a-hw-interrupt.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3d6e77ad1489650afa20da92bb589c8778baa8da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 14:30:40 +0100 Subject: KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v3: Do not use Active+Pending state for a HW interrupt From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> commit 3d6e77ad1489650afa20da92bb589c8778baa8da upstream. When an interrupt is injected with the HW bit set (indicating that deactivation should be propagated to the physical distributor), special care must be taken so that we never mark the corresponding LR with the Active+Pending state (as the pending state is kept in the physycal distributor). Fixes: 59529f69f504 ("KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-new: Add GICv3 world switch backend") Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c @@ -149,6 +149,13 @@ void vgic_v3_populate_lr(struct kvm_vcpu if (irq->hw) { val |= ICH_LR_HW; val |= ((u64)irq->hwintid) << ICH_LR_PHYS_ID_SHIFT; + /* + * Never set pending+active on a HW interrupt, as the + * pending state is kept at the physical distributor + * level. + */ + if (irq->active && irq_is_pending(irq)) + val &= ~ICH_LR_PENDING_BIT; } else { if (irq->config == VGIC_CONFIG_LEVEL) val |= ICH_LR_EOI; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx are queue-4.11/arm64-kvm-do-not-use-stack-protector-to-compile-el2-code.patch queue-4.11/arm-kvm-do-not-use-stack-protector-to-compile-hyp-code.patch queue-4.11/kvm-arm-arm64-vgic-v3-do-not-use-active-pending-state-for-a-hw-interrupt.patch queue-4.11/kvm-arm-arm64-vgic-v2-do-not-use-active-pending-state-for-a-hw-interrupt.patch