KVM: SVM: Sync TPR from LAPIC into VMCB::V_TPR even if AVIC is active
authorMaciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:44:28 +0000 (18:44 +0200)
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:04:16 +0000 (12:04 -0700)
Commit 3bbf3565f48c ("svm: Do not intercept CR8 when enable AVIC")
inhibited pre-VMRUN sync of TPR from LAPIC into VMCB::V_TPR in
sync_lapic_to_cr8() when AVIC is active.

AVIC does automatically sync between these two fields, however it does
so only on explicit guest writes to one of these fields, not on a bare
VMRUN.

This meant that when AVIC is enabled host changes to TPR in the LAPIC
state might not get automatically copied into the V_TPR field of VMCB.

This is especially true when it is the userspace setting LAPIC state via
KVM_SET_LAPIC ioctl() since userspace does not have access to the guest
VMCB.

Practice shows that it is the V_TPR that is actually used by the AVIC to
decide whether to issue pending interrupts to the CPU (not TPR in TASKPRI),
so any leftover value in V_TPR will cause serious interrupt delivery issues
in the guest when AVIC is enabled.

Fix this issue by doing pre-VMRUN TPR sync from LAPIC into VMCB::V_TPR
even when AVIC is enabled.

Fixes: 3bbf3565f48c ("svm: Do not intercept CR8 when enable AVIC")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) <naveen@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c231be64280b1461e854e1ce3595d70cde3a2e9d.1756139678.git.maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com
[sean: tag for stable@]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c

index d9931c6c4bc62aa0562e674e08f95717ee0a4a94..1bfebe40854f49e5976be0116261c1e6262009b3 100644 (file)
@@ -4046,8 +4046,7 @@ static inline void sync_lapic_to_cr8(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
        struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu);
        u64 cr8;
 
-       if (nested_svm_virtualize_tpr(vcpu) ||
-           kvm_vcpu_apicv_active(vcpu))
+       if (nested_svm_virtualize_tpr(vcpu))
                return;
 
        cr8 = kvm_get_cr8(vcpu);