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>
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