Current virtio-rng does a entropy request before DRIVER_OK, this violates the spec and kernel will ignore the interrupt after commit 8b4ec69d7e09 ("virtio: harden vring IRQ"). Fixing this by making device ready before the request. Fixes: 8b4ec69d7e09 ("virtio: harden vring IRQ") Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+5b59d6d459306a556f54@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c index e856df7e285c..a6f3a8a2aca6 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c @@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ static int probe_common(struct virtio_device *vdev) goto err_find; } + virtio_device_ready(vdev); + /* we always have a pending entropy request */ request_entropy(vi); -- 2.25.1