This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
efi_pstore: Introducing workqueue updating sysfs
to the 3.4-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:
efi_pstore-introducing-workqueue-updating-sysfs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From a93bc0c6e07ed9bac44700280e65e2945d864fd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:04:41 -0800
Subject: efi_pstore: Introducing workqueue updating sysfs
From: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@xxxxxxx>
commit a93bc0c6e07ed9bac44700280e65e2945d864fd4 upstream.
[Problem]
efi_pstore creates sysfs entries, which enable users to access to NVRAM,
in a write callback. If a kernel panic happens in an interrupt context,
it may fail because it could sleep due to dynamic memory allocations during
creating sysfs entries.
[Patch Description]
This patch removes sysfs operations from a write callback by introducing
a workqueue updating sysfs entries which is scheduled after the write
callback is called.
Also, the workqueue is kicked in a just oops case.
A system will go down in other cases such as panic, clean shutdown and emergency
restart. And we don't need to create sysfs entries because there is no chance for
users to access to them.
efi_pstore will be robust against a kernel panic in an interrupt context with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
[xr: Backported to 3.4:
- Adjust contest
- Remove repeated definition of helper function variable_is_present]
Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
include/linux/efi.h | 3 +-
2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -154,6 +154,13 @@ efivar_create_sysfs_entry(struct efivars
efi_char16_t *variable_name,
efi_guid_t *vendor_guid);
+/*
+ * Prototype for workqueue functions updating sysfs entry
+ */
+
+static void efivar_update_sysfs_entries(struct work_struct *);
+static DECLARE_WORK(efivar_work, efivar_update_sysfs_entries);
+
/* Return the number of unicode characters in data */
static unsigned long
utf16_strnlen(efi_char16_t *s, size_t maxlength)
@@ -839,11 +846,8 @@ static int efi_pstore_write(enum pstore_
if (found)
efivar_unregister(found);
- if (size)
- ret = efivar_create_sysfs_entry(efivars,
- utf16_strsize(efi_name,
- DUMP_NAME_LEN * 2),
- efi_name, &vendor);
+ if (reason == KMSG_DUMP_OOPS)
+ schedule_work(&efivar_work);
*id = part;
return ret;
@@ -1044,6 +1048,53 @@ static bool variable_is_present(efi_char
return found;
}
+static void efivar_update_sysfs_entries(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct efivars *efivars = &__efivars;
+ efi_guid_t vendor;
+ efi_char16_t *variable_name;
+ unsigned long variable_name_size = 1024;
+ efi_status_t status = EFI_NOT_FOUND;
+ bool found;
+
+ /* Add new sysfs entries */
+ while (1) {
+ variable_name = kzalloc(variable_name_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!variable_name) {
+ pr_err("efivars: Memory allocation failed.\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
+ spin_lock_irq(&efivars->lock);
+ found = false;
+ while (1) {
+ variable_name_size = 1024;
+ status = efivars->ops->get_next_variable(
+ &variable_name_size,
+ variable_name,
+ &vendor);
+ if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
+ break;
+ } else {
+ if (!variable_is_present(variable_name,
+ &vendor)) {
+ found = true;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ spin_unlock_irq(&efivars->lock);
+
+ if (!found) {
+ kfree(variable_name);
+ break;
+ } else
+ efivar_create_sysfs_entry(efivars,
+ variable_name_size,
+ variable_name, &vendor);
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Returns the size of variable_name, in bytes, including the
* terminating NULL character, or variable_name_size if no NULL
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -666,7 +666,8 @@ struct efivars {
* 1) ->list - adds, removals, reads, writes
* 2) ops.[gs]et_variable() calls.
* It must not be held when creating sysfs entries or calling kmalloc.
- * ops.get_next_variable() is only called from register_efivars(),
+ * ops.get_next_variable() is only called from register_efivars()
+ * or efivar_update_sysfs_entries(),
* which is protected by the BKL, so that path is safe.
*/
spinlock_t lock;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from seiji.aguchi@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/efi_pstore-check-remaining-space-with-queryvariableinfo-before-writing-data.patch
queue-3.4/efi_pstore-introducing-workqueue-updating-sysfs.patch
queue-3.4/efivars-disable-external-interrupt-while-holding-efivars-lock.patch
queue-3.4/efivars-add-module-parameter-to-disable-use-as-a-pstore-backend.patch
queue-3.4/efivars-allow-disabling-use-as-a-pstore-backend.patch
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