This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled hwrng: virtio - don't wait on cleanup to the 5.15-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: hwrng-virtio-don-t-wait-on-cleanup.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b1bc814b0f63ad68840b530c88a11fb0073b283b Author: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Oct 28 12:11:09 2021 +0200 hwrng: virtio - don't wait on cleanup [ Upstream commit 2bb31abdbe55742c89f4dc0cc26fcbc8467364f6 ] When virtio-rng device was dropped by the hwrng core we were forced to wait the buffer to come back from the device to not have remaining ongoing operation that could spoil the buffer. But now, as the buffer is internal to the virtio-rng we can release the waiting loop immediately, the buffer will be retrieve and use when the virtio-rng driver will be selected again. This avoids to hang on an rng_current write command if the virtio-rng device is blocked by a lack of entropy. This allows to select another entropy source if the current one is empty. Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211028101111.128049-3-lvivier@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Stable-dep-of: ac52578d6e8d ("hwrng: virtio - Fix race on data_avail and actual data") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c index 208c547dcac16..173aeea835bb6 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c @@ -82,6 +82,11 @@ static int virtio_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t size, bool wait) ret = wait_for_completion_killable(&vi->have_data); if (ret < 0) return ret; + /* if vi->data_avail is 0, we have been interrupted + * by a cleanup, but buffer stays in the queue + */ + if (vi->data_avail == 0) + return read; chunk = min_t(unsigned int, size, vi->data_avail); memcpy(buf + read, vi->data, chunk); @@ -105,7 +110,7 @@ static void virtio_cleanup(struct hwrng *rng) struct virtrng_info *vi = (struct virtrng_info *)rng->priv; if (vi->busy) - wait_for_completion(&vi->have_data); + complete(&vi->have_data); } static int probe_common(struct virtio_device *vdev)