On Wed May 22, 2024 at 8:37 AM EEST, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 03:37:16PM -0400, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado wrote: > > > > FWIW this patch fixes the warning. So feel free to add > > > > Tested-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfrapr...@collabora.com> > > Could you please test this patch instead? > > ---8<--- > A potential deadlock was reported with the config file at > > https://web.archive.org/web/20240522052129/https://0x0.st/XPN_.txt > > In this particular configuration, the deadlock doesn't exist because > the warning triggered at a point before modules were even available. > However, the deadlock can be real because any module loaded would > invoke async_synchronize_full. > > The issue is spurious for software crypto algorithms which aren't > themselves involved in async probing. However, it would be hard to > avoid for a PCI crypto driver using async probing. > > In this particular call trace, the problem is easily avoided because > the only reason the module is being requested during probing is the > add_early_randomness call in the hwrng core. This feature is > vestigial since there is now a kernel thread dedicated to doing > exactly this. > > So remove add_early_randomness as it is no longer needed.
"vestigial" did not know that word before ;-) Something learned. What is the kthread doing this currently? > > Reported-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfrapr...@collabora.com> > Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@kernel.org> > Fixes: 1b6d7f9eb150 ("tpm: add session encryption protection to > tpm2_get_random()") > Link: > https://lore.kernel.org/r/119dc5ed-f159-41be-9dda-1a056f29888d@notapiano/ > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> > > diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c > index f5c71a617a99..4084df65c9fa 100644 > --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c > +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c > @@ -64,19 +64,6 @@ static size_t rng_buffer_size(void) > return RNG_BUFFER_SIZE; > } > > -static void add_early_randomness(struct hwrng *rng) > -{ > - int bytes_read; > - > - mutex_lock(&reading_mutex); > - bytes_read = rng_get_data(rng, rng_fillbuf, 32, 0); > - mutex_unlock(&reading_mutex); > - if (bytes_read > 0) { > - size_t entropy = bytes_read * 8 * rng->quality / 1024; > - add_hwgenerator_randomness(rng_fillbuf, bytes_read, entropy, > false); > - } > -} > - > static inline void cleanup_rng(struct kref *kref) > { > struct hwrng *rng = container_of(kref, struct hwrng, ref); > @@ -340,13 +327,12 @@ static ssize_t rng_current_store(struct device *dev, > const char *buf, size_t len) > { > int err; > - struct hwrng *rng, *old_rng, *new_rng; > + struct hwrng *rng, *new_rng; > > err = mutex_lock_interruptible(&rng_mutex); > if (err) > return -ERESTARTSYS; > > - old_rng = current_rng; > if (sysfs_streq(buf, "")) { > err = enable_best_rng(); > } else { > @@ -362,11 +348,8 @@ static ssize_t rng_current_store(struct device *dev, > new_rng = get_current_rng_nolock(); > mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex); > > - if (new_rng) { > - if (new_rng != old_rng) > - add_early_randomness(new_rng); > + if (new_rng) > put_rng(new_rng); > - } > > return err ? : len; > } > @@ -544,7 +527,6 @@ int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng) > { > int err = -EINVAL; > struct hwrng *tmp; > - bool is_new_current = false; > > if (!rng->name || (!rng->data_read && !rng->read)) > goto out; > @@ -573,25 +555,8 @@ int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng) > err = set_current_rng(rng); > if (err) > goto out_unlock; > - /* to use current_rng in add_early_randomness() we need > - * to take a ref > - */ > - is_new_current = true; > - kref_get(&rng->ref); > } > mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex); > - if (is_new_current || !rng->init) { > - /* > - * Use a new device's input to add some randomness to > - * the system. If this rng device isn't going to be > - * used right away, its init function hasn't been > - * called yet by set_current_rng(); so only use the > - * randomness from devices that don't need an init callback > - */ > - add_early_randomness(rng); > - } > - if (is_new_current) > - put_rng(rng); > return 0; > out_unlock: > mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex); > @@ -602,12 +567,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwrng_register); > > void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng) > { > - struct hwrng *old_rng, *new_rng; > + struct hwrng *new_rng; > int err; > > mutex_lock(&rng_mutex); > > - old_rng = current_rng; > list_del(&rng->list); > complete_all(&rng->dying); > if (current_rng == rng) { > @@ -626,11 +590,8 @@ void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng) > } else > mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex); > > - if (new_rng) { > - if (old_rng != new_rng) > - add_early_randomness(new_rng); > + if (new_rng) > put_rng(new_rng); > - } > > wait_for_completion(&rng->cleanup_done); > } I have no doubts that such thread would not exist, so: Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jar...@kernel.org> BR, Jarkko