From: Weiming Shi Cancel (and flush) the I/O APIC's delayed EOI handling work during the "pre VM destroy" phase, before vCPUs are destroyed, as processing the EOI broadcast will inject another IRQ if the line is asserted, i.e. will try to deliver an IRQ to the target vCPU(s). Canceling the work after vCPUs are destroyed leads to UAF if the delayed work is processed after vCPUs are destroyed. BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic_fast+0x9bf/0xa20 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:1250 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880499abea0 by task kworker/1:2/1218 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1218 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted 7.1.0-rc7 #5 PREEMPT(lazy) Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 25.10 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, + 10.1 machine, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 Workqueue: events kvm_ioapic_eoi_inject_work Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 print_report+0x139/0x4ad mm/kasan/report.c:482 kasan_report+0xe4/0x1d0 mm/kasan/report.c:595 __kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic_fast+0x9bf/0xa20 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:1250 __kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic+0xd8/0xbf0 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:1345 kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h:129 ioapic_service+0x308/0x590 arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c:492 kvm_ioapic_eoi_inject_work+0x13c/0x190 arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c:532 process_one_work+0xa59/0x19a0 kernel/workqueue.c:3314 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3397 worker_thread+0x5eb/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3478 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd30 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245 Note, the VM is unreachable once kvm_destroy_vm() starts, and scheduling new work via kvm_ioapic_send_eoi() can only be done via KVM_RUN, i.e. requires a live vCPU. Alternatively, KVM could simply destroy the I/O APIC during the "pre" phase of VM destruction, but that gets more than a bit sketchy as KVM expects the I/O APIC to exist if ioapic_in_kernel() is true, and nested virtualization in particular has a bad habit of touching VM-scope state during vCPU destruction. E.g. attempting to free the PIC during the pre phase would lead to a NULL pointer dereference in kvm_cpu_has_extint(), and it's not hard to imagine the I/O APIC having a similar flaw. Fixes: 17bcd7144263 ("KVM: x86: Free vCPUs before freeing VM state") Reported-by: Reported-by: Zhong Wang Reported-by: Xuanqing Shi Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson --- v3: - Go back to v1, sans the helper (x86.c already has an #ifdef). [Sean, syzbot] - Expand the block comment to call out the the PIC and I/O APIC must not be destroyed/free. [Kai] v2: - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260706180025.2735341-3-bestswngs@gmail.com - Per Kai's suggestion, instead of adding a kvm_ioapic_pre_destroy() helper that only cancels the eoi_inject work, move kvm_pic_destroy()/kvm_ioapic_destroy() as a whole into kvm_arch_pre_destroy_vm(). This also fixes the stale kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev() Kai pointed out. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260705050443.1331662-1-bestswngs@gmail.com arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 0626e835e9eb..2b8474812303 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -9939,9 +9939,15 @@ void kvm_arch_pre_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm) * iterating over vCPUs in a different task while vCPUs are being freed * is unsafe, i.e. will lead to use-after-free. The PIT also needs to * be stopped before IRQ routing is freed. + * + * Do NOT free the in-kernel PIC or I/O APIC here (but as above, make + * sure to flush any background work), as KVM expects interrupt routing + * structures to be valid until vCPUs are destroyed. */ #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC kvm_free_pit(kvm); + if (kvm->arch.vioapic) + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&kvm->arch.vioapic->eoi_inject); #endif kvm_mmu_pre_destroy_vm(kvm); base-commit: a204badd8432f93b7e862e7dac6db0fe3d65f370 -- 2.55.0.229.g6434b31f56-goog