This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kexec: turn all kexec_mutex acquisitions into trylocks to the 5.10-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: kexec-turn-all-kexec_mutex-acquisitions-into-trylocks.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7bb5da0d490b2d836c5218f5186ee588d2145310 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 23:32:57 +0100 Subject: kexec: turn all kexec_mutex acquisitions into trylocks From: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7bb5da0d490b2d836c5218f5186ee588d2145310 upstream. Patch series "kexec, panic: Making crash_kexec() NMI safe", v4. This patch (of 2): Most acquistions of kexec_mutex are done via mutex_trylock() - those were a direct "translation" from: 8c5a1cf0ad3a ("kexec: use a mutex for locking rather than xchg()") there have however been two additions since then that use mutex_lock(): crash_get_memory_size() and crash_shrink_memory(). A later commit will replace said mutex with an atomic variable, and locking operations will become atomic_cmpxchg(). Rather than having those mutex_lock() become while (atomic_cmpxchg(&lock, 0, 1)), turn them into trylocks that can return -EBUSY on acquisition failure. This does halve the printable size of the crash kernel, but that's still neighbouring 2G for 32bit kernels which should be ample enough. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220630223258.4144112-1-vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220630223258.4144112-2-vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Juri Lelli <jlelli@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wenyang.linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/kexec.h | 2 +- kernel/kexec_core.c | 12 ++++++++---- kernel/ksysfs.c | 7 ++++++- 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/kexec.h +++ b/include/linux/kexec.h @@ -380,8 +380,8 @@ extern note_buf_t __percpu *crash_notes; extern bool kexec_in_progress; int crash_shrink_memory(unsigned long new_size); -size_t crash_get_memory_size(void); void crash_free_reserved_phys_range(unsigned long begin, unsigned long end); +ssize_t crash_get_memory_size(void); void arch_kexec_protect_crashkres(void); void arch_kexec_unprotect_crashkres(void); --- a/kernel/kexec_core.c +++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c @@ -989,13 +989,16 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) } } -size_t crash_get_memory_size(void) +ssize_t crash_get_memory_size(void) { - size_t size = 0; + ssize_t size = 0; + + if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)) + return -EBUSY; - mutex_lock(&kexec_mutex); if (crashk_res.end != crashk_res.start) size = resource_size(&crashk_res); + mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex); return size; } @@ -1016,7 +1019,8 @@ int crash_shrink_memory(unsigned long ne unsigned long old_size; struct resource *ram_res; - mutex_lock(&kexec_mutex); + if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)) + return -EBUSY; if (kexec_crash_image) { ret = -ENOENT; --- a/kernel/ksysfs.c +++ b/kernel/ksysfs.c @@ -106,7 +106,12 @@ KERNEL_ATTR_RO(kexec_crash_loaded); static ssize_t kexec_crash_size_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf) { - return sprintf(buf, "%zu\n", crash_get_memory_size()); + ssize_t size = crash_get_memory_size(); + + if (size < 0) + return size; + + return sprintf(buf, "%zd\n", size); } static ssize_t kexec_crash_size_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/kexec-turn-all-kexec_mutex-acquisitions-into-trylocks.patch queue-5.10/panic-kexec-make-__crash_kexec-nmi-safe.patch