KVM: x86: Remove WARN sanity check on hypervisor timer vs. UNINITIALIZED vCPU

Drop the WARN in KVM_RUN that asserts that KVM isn't using the hypervisor
timer, a.k.a. the VMX preemption timer, for a vCPU that is in the
UNINITIALIZIED activity state.  The intent of the WARN is to sanity check
that KVM won't drop a timer interrupt due to an unexpected transition to
UNINITIALIZED, but unfortunately userspace can use various ioctl()s to
force the unexpected state.

Drop the sanity check instead of switching from the hypervisor timer to a
software based timer, as the only reason to switch to a software timer
when a vCPU is blocking is to ensure the timer interrupt wakes the vCPU,
but said interrupt isn't a valid wake event for vCPUs in UNINITIALIZED
state *and* the interrupt will be dropped in the end.

Reported-by: Yikebaer Aizezi <[email protected]>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CALcu4rbFrU4go8sBHk3FreP+qjgtZCGcYNpSiEXOLm==qFv7iQ@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 5ff77a70b382..d293adc05145 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -11084,12 +11084,17 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 			r = -EINTR;
 			goto out;
 		}
+
 		/*
-		 * It should be impossible for the hypervisor timer to be in
-		 * use before KVM has ever run the vCPU.
+		 * Don't bother switching APIC timer emulation from the
+		 * hypervisor timer to the software timer, the only way for the
+		 * APIC timer to be active is if userspace stuffed vCPU state,
+		 * i.e. put the vCPU into a nonsensical state.  Only an INIT
+		 * will transition the vCPU out of UNINITIALIZED (without more
+		 * state stuffing from userspace), which will reset the local
+		 * APIC and thus cancel the timer or drop the IRQ (if the timer
+		 * already expired).
 		 */
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(kvm_lapic_hv_timer_in_use(vcpu));
-
 		kvm_vcpu_srcu_read_unlock(vcpu);
 		kvm_vcpu_block(vcpu);
 		kvm_vcpu_srcu_read_lock(vcpu);