Problem with interrupt support for vhost-device-gpio and QEMU 8.1.1

I tried to test connecting simulated GPIO peripherals to QEMU using vhost-device-gpio.
I have successfully built the vhost-device-gpio (with cargo build --features "mock_gpio") and tried to connect it to the Linux running on a qemu-aarch64-virt machine, built with Buildroot version 2023.11.1.

Of course, I had to add CONFIG_GPIO_VIRTIO=m in the Linux kernel configuration.

In the virtual machine, I have loaded the driver with modprobe gpio-virtio. Then, I could access the simulated GPIO controlling the direction and values.
However, when I tried to test interrupt functionality with gpiomon 0 0, I got an error:

# gpiomon 0 0
gpiomon: error waiting for events: No such device

After some investigations, I have found the cause. The feature VIRTIO_GPIO_F_IRQ was not set for the created virtio gpio device.
Further investigation required compiling QEMU with debugging symbols and running it under gdb.

With that, I could find that the problem is caused by the fact that this flag is not set in the host_features in virtio-pci.c source in QEMU.
As a quick workaround, I have modified the function virtio_pci_pre_plugged, adding the lacking feature here:

static void virtio_pci_pre_plugged(DeviceState *d, Error **errp)
{
    VirtIOPCIProxy *proxy = VIRTIO_PCI(d);
    VirtIODevice *vdev = virtio_bus_get_device(&proxy->bus);

    if (virtio_pci_modern(proxy)) {
        virtio_add_feature(&vdev->host_features, 0); /* VIRTIO_GPIO_F_IRQ - added by WZab as a quick&dirty workaround */ 
        virtio_add_feature(&vdev->host_features, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1);
    }

    virtio_add_feature(&vdev->host_features, VIRTIO_F_BAD_FEATURE);
}

With such a modified QEMU, I was able to activate emulation of IRQs with vhost-device-gpio.
That is a QEMU problem, but it is highly specific to vhost-device-gpio. Therefore, I've described it here.

Start by reproducing the interrupt failure with vhost-device-gpio, QEMU 8.1.1, and the stated Buildroot configuration, then inspect QEMU's hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c at virtio_pci_pre_plugged. Verify how VIRTIO_GPIO_F_IRQ is advertised and determine whether the actionable fix belongs in QEMU or this repository; done means a confirmed fix or a clearly documented upstream issue.