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>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
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 ad8857359ad6..d5a33b6be7d5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -2120,10 +2120,9 @@ 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:
--
2.31.1