@@ -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);
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 Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> --- drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)