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Subject[PATCH v8] ath9k: let sleep be interrupted when unregistering hwrng
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There are two deadlock scenarios that need addressing, which cause
problems when the computer goes to sleep, the interface is set down, and
hwrng_unregister() is called. When the deadlock is hit, sleep is delayed
for tens of seconds, causing it to fail. These scenarios are:

1) The hwrng kthread can't be stopped while it's sleeping, because it
uses msleep_interruptible() instead of schedule_timeout_interruptible().
The fix is a simple moving to the correct function. At the same time,
we should cleanup a common and useless dmesg splat in the same area.

2) A normal user thread can't be interrupted by hwrng_unregister() while
it's sleeping, because hwrng_unregister() is called from elsewhere.
The solution here is to keep track of which thread is currently
reading, and asleep, and signal that thread when it's time to
unregister. There's a bit of book keeping required to prevent
lifetime issues on current.

Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO+Okf5k+C+SE6pMVfPf-d8MfVPVq4PO7EY8Hys_DVXtent3HA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
---
Changes v7->v8:
- Add a missing export_symbol.

drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c | 19 +++++++-----------
kernel/sched/core.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index 16f227b995e8..df45c265878e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ static LIST_HEAD(rng_list);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(rng_mutex);
/* Protects rng read functions, data_avail, rng_buffer and rng_fillbuf */
static DEFINE_MUTEX(reading_mutex);
+/* Keeps track of whoever is wait-reading it currently while holding reading_mutex. */
+static struct task_struct *current_waiting_reader;
static int data_avail;
static u8 *rng_buffer, *rng_fillbuf;
static unsigned short current_quality;
@@ -208,6 +210,7 @@ static ssize_t rng_dev_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
int err = 0;
int bytes_read, len;
struct hwrng *rng;
+ bool wait;

while (size) {
rng = get_current_rng();
@@ -225,9 +228,15 @@ static ssize_t rng_dev_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
goto out_put;
}
if (!data_avail) {
+ wait = !(filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK);
+ if (wait && cmpxchg(&current_waiting_reader, NULL, current) != NULL) {
+ err = -EINTR;
+ goto out_unlock_reading;
+ }
bytes_read = rng_get_data(rng, rng_buffer,
- rng_buffer_size(),
- !(filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK));
+ rng_buffer_size(), wait);
+ if (wait && cmpxchg(&current_waiting_reader, current, NULL) != current)
+ synchronize_rcu();
if (bytes_read < 0) {
err = bytes_read;
goto out_unlock_reading;
@@ -513,8 +522,9 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
break;

if (rc <= 0) {
- pr_warn("hwrng: no data available\n");
- msleep_interruptible(10000);
+ if (kthread_should_stop())
+ break;
+ schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ * 10);
continue;
}

@@ -608,13 +618,21 @@ int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwrng_register);

+#define UNREGISTERING_READER ((void *)~0UL)
+
void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng)
{
struct hwrng *old_rng, *new_rng;
+ struct task_struct *waiting_reader;
int err;

mutex_lock(&rng_mutex);

+ rcu_read_lock();
+ waiting_reader = xchg(&current_waiting_reader, UNREGISTERING_READER);
+ if (waiting_reader && waiting_reader != UNREGISTERING_READER)
+ set_notify_signal(waiting_reader);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
old_rng = current_rng;
list_del(&rng->list);
if (current_rng == rng) {
@@ -640,6 +658,10 @@ void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng)
}

wait_for_completion(&rng->cleanup_done);
+
+ mutex_lock(&rng_mutex);
+ cmpxchg(&current_waiting_reader, UNREGISTERING_READER, NULL);
+ mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwrng_unregister);

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
index cb5414265a9b..8980dc36509e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
@@ -52,18 +52,13 @@ static int ath9k_rng_data_read(struct ath_softc *sc, u32 *buf, u32 buf_size)
return j << 2;
}

-static u32 ath9k_rng_delay_get(u32 fail_stats)
+static unsigned long ath9k_rng_delay_get(u32 fail_stats)
{
- u32 delay;
-
if (fail_stats < 100)
- delay = 10;
+ return HZ / 100;
else if (fail_stats < 105)
- delay = 1000;
- else
- delay = 10000;
-
- return delay;
+ return HZ;
+ return HZ * 10;
}

static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
@@ -80,10 +75,10 @@ static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
bytes_read += max & 3UL;
memzero_explicit(&word, sizeof(word));
}
- if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) || fail_stats > 110)
+ if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) || fail_stats > 110 ||
+ ((current->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && kthread_should_stop()) ||
+ schedule_timeout_interruptible(ath9k_rng_delay_get(++fail_stats)))
break;
-
- msleep_interruptible(ath9k_rng_delay_get(++fail_stats));
}

if (wait && !bytes_read && max)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index da0bf6fe9ecd..d65a5eb9a65e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4284,6 +4284,7 @@ int wake_up_state(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int state)
{
return try_to_wake_up(p, state, 0);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(wake_up_state);

/*
* Perform scheduler related setup for a newly forked process p.
--
2.35.1
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