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authorDaniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>2020-09-02 13:07:56 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-09-17 13:55:28 +0200
commit412bbf8b9a22c8635773a12f08c897b7f91ab6fc (patch)
tree49abf363cb7f33f0f699b832265325142dc6ffe0 /kernel
parent03ad17724b7a4cc20664902bac1331803d159533 (diff)
padata: fix possible padata_works_lock deadlock
[ Upstream commit 1b0df11fde0f14a269a181b3b7f5122415bc5ed7 ] syzbot reports, WARNING: inconsistent lock state 5.9.0-rc2-syzkaller #0 Not tainted -------------------------------- inconsistent {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} -> {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} usage. syz-executor.0/26715 takes: (padata_works_lock){+.?.}-{2:2}, at: padata_do_parallel kernel/padata.c:220 {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} state was registered at: spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:354 [inline] padata_do_parallel kernel/padata.c:220 ... __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:298 ... sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1091 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:581 Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(padata_works_lock); <Interrupt> lock(padata_works_lock); padata_do_parallel() takes padata_works_lock with softirqs enabled, so a deadlock is possible if, on the same CPU, the lock is acquired in process context and then softirq handling done in an interrupt leads to the same path. Fix by leaving softirqs disabled while do_parallel holds padata_works_lock. Reported-by: syzbot+f4b9f49e38e25eb4ef52@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: 4611ce2246889 ("padata: allocate work structures for parallel jobs from a pool") Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/padata.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/padata.c b/kernel/padata.c
index 4373f7adaa40..3bc90fec0904 100644
--- a/kernel/padata.c
+++ b/kernel/padata.c
@@ -215,12 +215,13 @@ int padata_do_parallel(struct padata_shell *ps,
padata->pd = pd;
padata->cb_cpu = *cb_cpu;
- rcu_read_unlock_bh();
-
spin_lock(&padata_works_lock);
padata->seq_nr = ++pd->seq_nr;
pw = padata_work_alloc();
spin_unlock(&padata_works_lock);
+
+ rcu_read_unlock_bh();
+
if (pw) {
padata_work_init(pw, padata_parallel_worker, padata, 0);
queue_work(pinst->parallel_wq, &pw->pw_work);