The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 228432551bd8783211e494ab35f42a4344580502 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 14:14:22 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] virtio-rng: make device ready before making request Current virtio-rng does a entropy request before DRIVER_OK, this violates the spec: virtio spec requires that all drivers set DRIVER_OK before using devices. Further, kernel will ignore the interrupt after commit 8b4ec69d7e09 ("virtio: harden vring IRQ"). Fixing this by making device ready before the request. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 8b4ec69d7e09 ("virtio: harden vring IRQ") Fixes: f7f510ec1957 ("virtio: An entropy device, as suggested by hpa.") Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+5b59d6d459306a556f54@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-Id: <20220608061422.38437-1-jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c index e856df7e285c..a6f3a8a2aca6 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c @@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ static int probe_common(struct virtio_device *vdev) goto err_find; } + virtio_device_ready(vdev); + /* we always have a pending entropy request */ request_entropy(vi);