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8e4649cac9bcddc050d2df07908075e9e69bccc7 e1000e: Prevent crash from legacy interrupt firing after MSI-X enable
A race condition between guest driver actions and QEMU timers can lead
to an assertion failure when the guest switches the e1000e from legacy
interrupt mode to MSI-X. If a legacy interrupt delay timer (TIDV or
RDTR) is active, but the guest enables MSI-X before the timer fires,
the pending interrupt cause can trigger an assert in
e1000e_intmgr_collect_delayed_causes().
This patch removes the assertion and executes the code that clears the
pending legacy causes. This change is safe and introduces no unintended
behavioral side effects, as it only alters a state that previously led
to termination.
- when core->delayed_causes == 0 the function was already a no-op and
remains so.
- when core->delayed_causes != 0 the function would previously
crash due to the assertion failure. The patch now defines a safe
outcome by clearing the cause and returning. Since behavior after
the assertion never existed, this simply corrects the crash.
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1863
Suggested-by: Akihiko Odaki <odaki@rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki <odaki@rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Message-ID: <20250807110806.409065-1-lvivier@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
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