crypto: algboss - don't wait during notifier callback
authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Thu, 4 Jun 2020 18:52:53 +0000 (11:52 -0700)
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 07:38:54 +0000 (17:38 +1000)
commit77251e41f89a813b4090f5199442f217bbf11297
treef29d1c0c6779eaea7dd62b465e653d713415a132
parent24c7bf089453f6a1eed4c77ed0604bf4bb8cfb03
crypto: algboss - don't wait during notifier callback

When a crypto template needs to be instantiated, CRYPTO_MSG_ALG_REQUEST
is sent to crypto_chain.  cryptomgr_schedule_probe() handles this by
starting a thread to instantiate the template, then waiting for this
thread to complete via crypto_larval::completion.

This can deadlock because instantiating the template may require loading
modules, and this (apparently depending on userspace) may need to wait
for the crc-t10dif module (lib/crc-t10dif.c) to be loaded.  But
crc-t10dif's module_init function uses crypto_register_notifier() and
therefore takes crypto_chain.rwsem for write.  That can't proceed until
the notifier callback has finished, as it holds this semaphore for read.

Fix this by removing the wait on crypto_larval::completion from within
cryptomgr_schedule_probe().  It's actually unnecessary because
crypto_alg_mod_lookup() calls crypto_larval_wait() itself after sending
CRYPTO_MSG_ALG_REQUEST.

This only actually became a problem in v4.20 due to commit b76377543b73
("crc-t10dif: Pick better transform if one becomes available"), but the
unnecessary wait was much older.

BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207159
Reported-by: Mike Gerow <gerow@google.com>
Fixes: 398710379f51 ("crypto: algapi - Move larval completion into algboss")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.6+
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reported-by: Kai Lüke <kai@kinvolk.io>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
crypto/algboss.c