Re: [PATCH v2] hw/intc/arm_gicv3_cpuif: Tolerate spurious EOIR writes

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 at 14:07, Jean-Philippe Brucker
<jean-philippe@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Commit 382c7160d1cd ("hw/intc/arm_gicv3_cpuif: Fix EOIR write access
> check logic") added an assert_not_reached() if the guest writes the EOIR
> register while no interrupt is active.
>
> It turns out some software does this: EDK2, in
> GicV3ExitBootServicesEvent(), unconditionally write EOIR for all
> interrupts that it manages. This now causes QEMU to abort when running
> UEFI on a VM with GICv3. Although it is UNPREDICTABLE behavior and EDK2
> does need fixing, the punishment seems a little harsh, especially since
> icc_eoir_write() already tolerates writes of nonexistent interrupt
> numbers. Display a guest error and tolerate spurious EOIR writes.
>
> Fixes: 382c7160d1cd ("hw/intc/arm_gicv3_cpuif: Fix EOIR write access check 
> logic")
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
> ---
> v2: Added qemu_log_mask() (so I didn't keep the Reviewed-by tag)
> v1: 
> 20210603110012.1182530-1-jean-philippe@linaro.org/">https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20210603110012.1182530-1-jean-philippe@linaro.org/



Applied to target-arm.next, thanks.

-- PMM