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hw_random: core, sleep interruptible in read

Message ID 1448567789-2470-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz (mailing list archive)
State Changes Requested
Delegated to: Herbert Xu
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Jiri Slaby Nov. 26, 2015, 7:56 p.m. UTC
hwrng kthread can be waiting via hwrng_fillfn for some data from a rng
like virtio-rng:
hwrng           D ffff880093e17798     0   382      2 0x00000000
...
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff817339c6>] wait_for_completion_killable+0x96/0x210
 [<ffffffffa00aa1b7>] virtio_read+0x57/0xf0 [virtio_rng]
 [<ffffffff814f4a35>] hwrng_fillfn+0x75/0x130
 [<ffffffff810aa243>] kthread+0xf3/0x110

And when some user program tries to read the /dev node in this state,
we get:
rngd            D ffff880093e17798     0   762      1 0x00000004
...
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff817351ac>] mutex_lock_nested+0x15c/0x3e0
 [<ffffffff814f478e>] rng_dev_read+0x6e/0x240
 [<ffffffff81231958>] __vfs_read+0x28/0xe0
 [<ffffffff81232393>] vfs_read+0x83/0x130

And this is indeed unkillable. So use mutex_lock_interruptible
instead of mutex_lock in rng_dev_read and exit immediatelly when
interrupted. And possibly return already read data, if any (as POSIX
allows).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Herbert Xu Nov. 27, 2015, 1:06 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 08:56:29PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> index a064237ff362..f003df162e09 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> @@ -238,7 +238,10 @@ static ssize_t rng_dev_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
>  			goto out;
>  		}
>  
> -		mutex_lock(&reading_mutex);
> +		if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&reading_mutex)) {
> +			err = -EINTR;

Shouldn't this be ERESTARTSYS?

Thanks,
Jiri Slaby Nov. 27, 2015, 3:40 p.m. UTC | #2
On 11/27/2015, 02:06 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 08:56:29PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
>> index a064237ff362..f003df162e09 100644
>> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
>> @@ -238,7 +238,10 @@ static ssize_t rng_dev_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
>>  			goto out;
>>  		}
>>  
>> -		mutex_lock(&reading_mutex);
>> +		if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&reading_mutex)) {
>> +			err = -EINTR;
> 
> Shouldn't this be ERESTARTSYS?

Yes, it actually can, given the retval is returned only if no data were
read yet.

thanks,
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diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index a064237ff362..f003df162e09 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -238,7 +238,10 @@  static ssize_t rng_dev_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
 			goto out;
 		}
 
-		mutex_lock(&reading_mutex);
+		if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&reading_mutex)) {
+			err = -EINTR;
+			goto out_put;
+		}
 		if (!data_avail) {
 			bytes_read = rng_get_data(rng, rng_buffer,
 				rng_buffer_size(),
@@ -288,6 +291,7 @@  out:
 
 out_unlock_reading:
 	mutex_unlock(&reading_mutex);
+out_put:
 	put_rng(rng);
 	goto out;
 }