On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 11:52:53AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
From: Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com
When a crypto template needs to be instantiated, CRYPTO_MSG_ALG_REQUEST is sent to crypto_chain. cryptomgr_schedule_probe() handles this by starting a thread to instantiate the template, then waiting for this thread to complete via crypto_larval::completion.
This can deadlock because instantiating the template may require loading modules, and this (apparently depending on userspace) may need to wait for the crc-t10dif module (lib/crc-t10dif.c) to be loaded. But crc-t10dif's module_init function uses crypto_register_notifier() and therefore takes crypto_chain.rwsem for write. That can't proceed until the notifier callback has finished, as it holds this semaphore for read.
Fix this by removing the wait on crypto_larval::completion from within cryptomgr_schedule_probe(). It's actually unnecessary because crypto_alg_mod_lookup() calls crypto_larval_wait() itself after sending CRYPTO_MSG_ALG_REQUEST.
This only actually became a problem in v4.20 due to commit b76377543b73 ("crc-t10dif: Pick better transform if one becomes available"), but the unnecessary wait was much older.
BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207159 Reported-by: Mike Gerow gerow@google.com Fixes: 398710379f51 ("crypto: algapi - Move larval completion into algboss") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.6+ Cc: Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com
crypto/algboss.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
Patch applied. Thanks.