As reported by Eric Sesterhenn the re-allocation of the cipher in reset leads to: |BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rwsem.c:21 |in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 4926, name: modprobe |INFO: lockdep is turned off. |Pid: 4926, comm: modprobe Tainted: G M 2.6.31-rc1-22297-g5298976 #24 |Call Trace: | [<c011dd93>] __might_sleep+0xf9/0x101 | [<c0777aa0>] down_read+0x16/0x68 | [<c048bf04>] crypto_alg_lookup+0x16/0x34 | [<c048bf52>] crypto_larval_lookup+0x30/0xf9 | [<c048c038>] crypto_alg_mod_lookup+0x1d/0x62 | [<c048c13e>] crypto_alloc_base+0x1e/0x64 | [<c04bf991>] reset_prng_context+0xab/0x13f | [<c04e5cfc>] ? __spin_lock_init+0x27/0x51 | [<c04bfce1>] cprng_init+0x2a/0x42 | [<c048bb4c>] __crypto_alloc_tfm+0xfa/0x128 | [<c048c153>] crypto_alloc_base+0x33/0x64 | [<c04933c9>] alg_test_cprng+0x30/0x1f4 | [<c0493329>] alg_test+0x12f/0x19f | [<c0177f1f>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x14d/0x481 | [<d09219e2>] do_test+0xf9d/0x163f [tcrypt] | [<d0920de6>] do_test+0x3a1/0x163f [tcrypt] | [<d0926035>] tcrypt_mod_init+0x35/0x7c [tcrypt] | [<c010113c>] _stext+0x54/0x12c | [<d0926000>] ? tcrypt_mod_init+0x0/0x7c [tcrypt] | [<c01398a3>] ? up_read+0x16/0x2b | [<c0139fc4>] ? __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x40/0x4c | [<c014ee8d>] sys_init_module+0xa9/0x1bf | [<c010292b>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x32 because a spin lock is held and crypto_alloc_base() may sleep. There is no reason to re-allocate the cipher, the state is resetted in ->setkey(). This patches makes the cipher allocation a one time thing and moves it to init. Reported-by: Eric Sesterhenn <eric.sesterhenn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: - remove crypto_free_cipher() from reset - don'r return 0 in error case in reset v1: initial shot Neil, what about that one? Setting tfm to NULL and grabbing the return code earler would make the patch a little longer. crypto/ansi_cprng.c | 25 ++++++++----------------- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/crypto/ansi_cprng.c b/crypto/ansi_cprng.c index ff00b58..5357ba7 100644 --- a/crypto/ansi_cprng.c +++ b/crypto/ansi_cprng.c @@ -283,7 +283,6 @@ static int reset_prng_context(struct prng_context *ctx, unsigned char *V, unsigned char *DT) { int ret; - int rc = -EINVAL; unsigned char *prng_key; spin_lock_bh(&ctx->prng_lock); @@ -307,34 +306,20 @@ static int reset_prng_context(struct prng_context *ctx, memset(ctx->rand_data, 0, DEFAULT_BLK_SZ); memset(ctx->last_rand_data, 0, DEFAULT_BLK_SZ); - if (ctx->tfm) - crypto_free_cipher(ctx->tfm); - - ctx->tfm = crypto_alloc_cipher("aes", 0, 0); - if (IS_ERR(ctx->tfm)) { - dbgprint(KERN_CRIT "Failed to alloc tfm for context %p\n", - ctx); - ctx->tfm = NULL; - goto out; - } - ctx->rand_data_valid = DEFAULT_BLK_SZ; ret = crypto_cipher_setkey(ctx->tfm, prng_key, klen); if (ret) { dbgprint(KERN_CRIT "PRNG: setkey() failed flags=%x\n", crypto_cipher_get_flags(ctx->tfm)); - crypto_free_cipher(ctx->tfm); goto out; } - rc = 0; + ret = 0; ctx->flags &= ~PRNG_NEED_RESET; out: spin_unlock_bh(&ctx->prng_lock); - - return rc; - + return ret; } static int cprng_init(struct crypto_tfm *tfm) @@ -342,6 +327,12 @@ static int cprng_init(struct crypto_tfm *tfm) struct prng_context *ctx = crypto_tfm_ctx(tfm); spin_lock_init(&ctx->prng_lock); + ctx->tfm = crypto_alloc_cipher("aes", 0, 0); + if (IS_ERR(ctx->tfm)) { + dbgprint(KERN_CRIT "Failed to alloc tfm for context %p\n", + ctx); + return PTR_ERR(ctx->tfm); + } if (reset_prng_context(ctx, NULL, DEFAULT_PRNG_KSZ, NULL, NULL) < 0) return -EINVAL; -- 1.6.3.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html