There are two issues with the management of the kernel thread to gather
entropy:
* it can terminate also if the rng is removed, and in this case it doesn't
synchronize with kthread_should_stop(), but it directly sets hwrng_fill
to NULL. If this happens after the NULL check but before kthread_stop()
is called, we'll have a NULL pointer dereference.
* if we have a register/unregister too fast, it can happen that the kthread
is not yet started when kthread_stop is called, and this seems to leave a
corrupted or uninitialized kthread struct. This is detected by the
WARN_ON at kernel/kthread.c:75 and later causes a page domain fault.
CC: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Valentin Longchamp <valentin.longchamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luca Dariz <luca.dariz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index 8c1c47dd9f46..5845da93c7f4 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ static struct hwrng *current_rng;
/* the current rng has been explicitly chosen by user via sysfs */
static int cur_rng_set_by_user;
static struct task_struct *hwrng_fill;
+static struct completion hwrng_started = COMPLETION_INITIALIZER(hwrng_started);
/* list of registered rngs, sorted decending by quality */
static LIST_HEAD(rng_list);
/* Protects rng_list and current_rng */
@@ -432,12 +433,15 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
{
long rc;
+ complete(&hwrng_started);
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
struct hwrng *rng;
rng = get_current_rng();
- if (IS_ERR(rng) || !rng)
- break;
+ if (IS_ERR(rng) || !rng) {
+ msleep_interruptible(10000);
+ continue;
+ }
mutex_lock(&reading_mutex);
rc = rng_get_data(rng, rng_fillbuf,
rng_buffer_size(), 1);
@@ -462,6 +466,8 @@ static void start_khwrngd(void)
if (IS_ERR(hwrng_fill)) {
pr_err("hwrng_fill thread creation failed\n");
hwrng_fill = NULL;
+ } else {
+ wait_for_completion(&hwrng_started);
}
}
--
2.24.3
