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Date:   Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:19:36 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH MANUALSEL 5.15 5/7] KVM: x86: Do not change ICR on write
 to APIC_SELF_IPI
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To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>, tglx@linutronix.de,
        mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
        x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
References: <20220427155431.19458-1-sashal@kernel.org>
 <20220427155431.19458-5-sashal@kernel.org>
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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On 4/27/22 17:54, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit d22a81b304a27fca6124174a8e842e826c193466 ]
> 
> Emulating writes to SELF_IPI with a write to ICR has an unwanted side effect:
> the value of ICR in vAPIC page gets changed.  The lists SELF_IPI as write-only,
> with no associated MMIO offset, so any write should have no visible side
> effect in the vAPIC page.
> 
> Reported-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> ---
>   arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 7 +++----
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> index 4d92fb4fdf69..83d1743a1dd0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> @@ -2125,10 +2125,9 @@ int kvm_lapic_reg_write(struct kvm_lapic *apic, u32 reg, u32 val)
>   		break;
>   
>   	case APIC_SELF_IPI:
> -		if (apic_x2apic_mode(apic)) {
> -			kvm_lapic_reg_write(apic, APIC_ICR,
> -					    APIC_DEST_SELF | (val & APIC_VECTOR_MASK));
> -		} else
> +		if (apic_x2apic_mode(apic))
> +			kvm_apic_send_ipi(apic, APIC_DEST_SELF | (val & APIC_VECTOR_MASK), 0);
> +		else
>   			ret = 1;
>   		break;
>   	default:

Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>