zram: do not lookup algorithm in backends table

Always use crypto_has_comp() so that crypto can lookup module, call
usermodhelper to load the modules, wait for usermodhelper to finish and so
on.  Otherwise crypto will do all of these steps under CPU hot-plug lock
and this looks like too much stuff to handle under the CPU hot-plug lock.
Besides this can end up in a deadlock when usermodhelper triggers a code
path that attempts to lock the CPU hot-plug lock, that zram already holds.

An example of such deadlock:

- path A. zram grabs CPU hot-plug lock, execs /sbin/modprobe from crypto
  and waits for modprobe to finish

disksize_store
 zcomp_create
  __cpuhp_state_add_instance
   __cpuhp_state_add_instance_cpuslocked
    zcomp_cpu_up_prepare
     crypto_alloc_base
      crypto_alg_mod_lookup
       call_usermodehelper_exec
        wait_for_completion_killable
         do_wait_for_common
          schedule

- path B. async work kthread that brings in scsi device. It wants to
  register CPUHP states at some point, and it needs the CPU hot-plug
  lock for that, which is owned by zram.

async_run_entry_fn
 scsi_probe_and_add_lun
  scsi_mq_alloc_queue
   blk_mq_init_queue
    blk_mq_init_allocated_queue
     blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs
      __cpuhp_state_add_instance
       __cpuhp_state_add_instance_cpuslocked
        mutex_lock
         schedule

- path C. modprobe sleeps, waiting for all aync works to finish.

load_module
 do_init_module
  async_synchronize_full
   async_synchronize_cookie_domain
    schedule

[senozhatsky@chromium.org: add comment]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220624060606.1014474-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220622023501.517125-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
index 052aa3f65514e99923065e09dea0a7442dccd561..0916de952e091e2e38116bb548d84b127fcc0569 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
@@ -63,12 +63,6 @@ static int zcomp_strm_init(struct zcomp_strm *zstrm, struct zcomp *comp)
 
 bool zcomp_available_algorithm(const char *comp)
 {
-       int i;
-
-       i = sysfs_match_string(backends, comp);
-       if (i >= 0)
-               return true;
-
        /*
         * Crypto does not ignore a trailing new line symbol,
         * so make sure you don't supply a string containing
@@ -217,6 +211,11 @@ struct zcomp *zcomp_create(const char *compress)
        struct zcomp *comp;
        int error;
 
+       /*
+        * Crypto API will execute /sbin/modprobe if the compression module
+        * is not loaded yet. We must do it here, otherwise we are about to
+        * call /sbin/modprobe under CPU hot-plug lock.
+        */
        if (!zcomp_available_algorithm(compress))
                return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);