Ensure the PIR is read exactly once at the start of handle_pending_pir(), to guarantee that checking for an outstanding posted interrupt in a given chuck doesn't reload the chunk from the "real" PIR. Functionally, a reload is benign, but it would defeat the purpose of pre-loading into a copy. Fixes: 1b03d82ba15e ("x86/irq: Install posted MSI notification handler") Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/irq.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c index 385e3a5fc304..9e5263887ff6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ static __always_inline bool handle_pending_pir(u64 *pir, struct pt_regs *regs) bool handled = false; for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) - pir_copy[i] = pir[i]; + pir_copy[i] = READ_ONCE(pir[i]); for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) { if (!pir_copy[i]) -- 2.49.0.rc1.451.g8f38331e32-goog