This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hwrng: core - sleep interruptible in read
to the 4.4-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-core-sleep-interruptible-in-read.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 1ab87298cb59b649d8d648d25dc15b36ab865f5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 16:50:43 +0100
Subject: hwrng: core - sleep interruptible in read
From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
commit 1ab87298cb59b649d8d648d25dc15b36ab865f5a upstream.
hwrng kthread can be waiting via hwrng_fillfn for some data from a rng
like virtio-rng:
hwrng D ffff880093e17798 0 382 2 0x00000000
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff817339c6>] wait_for_completion_killable+0x96/0x210
[<ffffffffa00aa1b7>] virtio_read+0x57/0xf0 [virtio_rng]
[<ffffffff814f4a35>] hwrng_fillfn+0x75/0x130
[<ffffffff810aa243>] kthread+0xf3/0x110
And when some user program tries to read the /dev node in this state,
we get:
rngd D ffff880093e17798 0 762 1 0x00000004
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff817351ac>] mutex_lock_nested+0x15c/0x3e0
[<ffffffff814f478e>] rng_dev_read+0x6e/0x240
[<ffffffff81231958>] __vfs_read+0x28/0xe0
[<ffffffff81232393>] vfs_read+0x83/0x130
And this is indeed unkillable. So use mutex_lock_interruptible
instead of mutex_lock in rng_dev_read and exit immediatelly when
interrupted. And possibly return already read data, if any (as POSIX
allows).
v2: use ERESTARTSYS instead of EINTR
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -238,7 +238,10 @@ static ssize_t rng_dev_read(struct file
goto out;
}
- mutex_lock(&reading_mutex);
+ if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&reading_mutex)) {
+ err = -ERESTARTSYS;
+ goto out_put;
+ }
if (!data_avail) {
bytes_read = rng_get_data(rng, rng_buffer,
rng_buffer_size(),
@@ -288,6 +291,7 @@ out:
out_unlock_reading:
mutex_unlock(&reading_mutex);
+out_put:
put_rng(rng);
goto out;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jslaby@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/hwrng-core-sleep-interruptible-in-read.patch