tree 09d1d9c39c919133652ffcc8509efbf7c3c2cb7d
parent 92e507d216139b356a375afbda2824e85235e748
author Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> 1555733391 -0400
committer Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> 1555733396 -0400

random: add a spinlock_t to struct batched_entropy

The per-CPU variable batched_entropy_uXX is protected by get_cpu_var().
This is just a preempt_disable() which ensures that the variable is only
from the local CPU. It does not protect against users on the same CPU
from another context. It is possible that a preemptible context reads
slot 0 and then an interrupt occurs and the same value is read again.

The above scenario is confirmed by lockdep if we add a spinlock:
| ================================
| WARNING: inconsistent lock state
| 5.1.0-rc3+ #42 Not tainted
| --------------------------------
| inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage.
| ksoftirqd/9/56 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE0:SE0] takes:
| (____ptrval____) (batched_entropy_u32.lock){+.?.}, at: get_random_u32+0x3e/0xe0
| {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at:
|   _raw_spin_lock+0x2a/0x40
|   get_random_u32+0x3e/0xe0
|   new_slab+0x15c/0x7b0
|   ___slab_alloc+0x492/0x620
|   __slab_alloc.isra.73+0x53/0xa0
|   kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xaf/0x2a0
|   copy_process.part.41+0x1e1/0x2370
|   _do_fork+0xdb/0x6d0
|   kernel_thread+0x20/0x30
|   kthreadd+0x1ba/0x220
|   ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
…
| other info that might help us debug this:
|  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
|
|        CPU0
|        ----
|   lock(batched_entropy_u32.lock);
|   <Interrupt>
|     lock(batched_entropy_u32.lock);
|
|  *** DEADLOCK ***
|
| stack backtrace:
| Call Trace:
…
|  kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x20e/0x270
|  ipmi_alloc_recv_msg+0x16/0x40
…
|  __do_softirq+0xec/0x48d
|  run_ksoftirqd+0x37/0x60
|  smpboot_thread_fn+0x191/0x290
|  kthread+0xfe/0x130
|  ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50

Add a spinlock_t to the batched_entropy data structure and acquire the
lock while accessing it. Acquire the lock with disabled interrupts
because this function may be used from interrupt context.

Remove the batched_entropy_reset_lock lock. Now that we have a lock for
the data scructure, we can access it from a remote CPU.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>