This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled random: fix data race on crng_node_pool to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: random-fix-data-race-on-crng_node_pool.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5d73d1e320c3fd94ea15ba5f79301da9a8bcc7de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 16:41:56 -0600 Subject: random: fix data race on crng_node_pool From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 5d73d1e320c3fd94ea15ba5f79301da9a8bcc7de upstream. extract_crng() and crng_backtrack_protect() load crng_node_pool with a plain load, which causes undefined behavior if do_numa_crng_init() modifies it concurrently. Fix this by using READ_ONCE(). Note: as per the previous discussion https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211219025139.31085-1-ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u, READ_ONCE() is believed to be sufficient here, and it was requested that it be used here instead of smp_load_acquire(). Also change do_numa_crng_init() to set crng_node_pool using cmpxchg_release() instead of mb() + cmpxchg(), as the former is sufficient here but is more lightweight. Fixes: 1e7f583af67b ("random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly userspace programs") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/random.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -831,8 +831,8 @@ static void do_numa_crng_init(struct wor crng_initialize(crng); pool[i] = crng; } - mb(); - if (cmpxchg(&crng_node_pool, NULL, pool)) { + /* pairs with READ_ONCE() in select_crng() */ + if (cmpxchg_release(&crng_node_pool, NULL, pool) != NULL) { for_each_node(i) kfree(pool[i]); kfree(pool); @@ -845,8 +845,26 @@ static void numa_crng_init(void) { schedule_work(&numa_crng_init_work); } + +static struct crng_state *select_crng(void) +{ + struct crng_state **pool; + int nid = numa_node_id(); + + /* pairs with cmpxchg_release() in do_numa_crng_init() */ + pool = READ_ONCE(crng_node_pool); + if (pool && pool[nid]) + return pool[nid]; + + return &primary_crng; +} #else static void numa_crng_init(void) {} + +static struct crng_state *select_crng(void) +{ + return &primary_crng; +} #endif /* @@ -995,15 +1013,7 @@ static void _extract_crng(struct crng_st static void extract_crng(__u8 out[CHACHA20_BLOCK_SIZE]) { - struct crng_state *crng = NULL; - -#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - if (crng_node_pool) - crng = crng_node_pool[numa_node_id()]; - if (crng == NULL) -#endif - crng = &primary_crng; - _extract_crng(crng, out); + _extract_crng(select_crng(), out); } /* @@ -1032,15 +1042,7 @@ static void _crng_backtrack_protect(stru static void crng_backtrack_protect(__u8 tmp[CHACHA20_BLOCK_SIZE], int used) { - struct crng_state *crng = NULL; - -#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - if (crng_node_pool) - crng = crng_node_pool[numa_node_id()]; - if (crng == NULL) -#endif - crng = &primary_crng; - _crng_backtrack_protect(crng, tmp, used); + _crng_backtrack_protect(select_crng(), tmp, used); } static ssize_t extract_crng_user(void __user *buf, size_t nbytes) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.19/random-fix-data-race-on-crng-init-time.patch queue-4.19/random-fix-data-race-on-crng_node_pool.patch