This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled random: check for signal_pending() outside of need_resched() check to the 5.17-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-check-for-signal_pending-outside-of-need_resched-check.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.17 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu May 26 04:19:10 PM CEST 2022 From: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 18:39:31 +0200 Subject: random: check for signal_pending() outside of need_resched() check From: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 1448769c9cdb69ad65287f4f7ab58bc5f2f5d7ba upstream. signal_pending() checks TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and TIF_SIGPENDING, which signal that the task should bail out of the syscall when possible. This is a separate concept from need_resched(), which checks TIF_NEED_RESCHED, signaling that the task should preempt. In particular, with the current code, the signal_pending() bailout probably won't work reliably. Change this to look like other functions that read lots of data, such as read_zero(). Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/random.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -549,13 +549,13 @@ static ssize_t get_random_bytes_user(voi } do { - if (large_request && need_resched()) { + if (large_request) { if (signal_pending(current)) { if (!ret) ret = -ERESTARTSYS; break; } - schedule(); + cond_resched(); } chacha20_block(chacha_state, output); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jannh@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.17/random-use-simpler-fast-key-erasure-flow-on-per-cpu-keys.patch queue-5.17/random-allow-partial-reads-if-later-user-copies-fail.patch queue-5.17/random.patch queue-5.17/random-do-not-allow-user-to-keep-crng-key-around-on-stack.patch queue-5.17/random-remove-outdated-int_max-6-check-in-urandom_read.patch queue-5.17/random-check-for-signal_pending-outside-of-need_resched-check.patch queue-5.17/random-make-more-consistent-use-of-integer-types.patch queue-5.17/random-zero-buffer-after-reading-entropy-from-userspace.patch