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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2018-04-23 18:51:28 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-05-01 15:13:03 -0700
commitc3ff2da5cef05676d490fa9057b2dceb5e48cdb9 (patch)
tree2df33857ecec18f5bd76ae72c211387c388457af /drivers
parent2971585b27f6a810c50b6f3a9ac391aa4d13fdf5 (diff)
random: fix possible sleeping allocation from irq context
commit 6c1e851c4edc13a43adb3ea4044e3fc8f43ccf7d upstream. We can do a sleeping allocation from an irq context when CONFIG_NUMA is enabled. Fix this by initializing the NUMA crng instances in a workqueue. Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Reported-by: syzbot+9de458f6a5e713ee8c1a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: 8ef35c866f8862df ("random: set up the NUMA crng instances...") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index b979173cb0e1..dbfb3e69600b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ static int crng_fast_load(const char *cp, size_t len)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-static void numa_crng_init(void)
+static void do_numa_crng_init(struct work_struct *work)
{
int i;
struct crng_state *crng;
@@ -841,6 +841,13 @@ static void numa_crng_init(void)
kfree(pool);
}
}
+
+static DECLARE_WORK(numa_crng_init_work, do_numa_crng_init);
+
+static void numa_crng_init(void)
+{
+ schedule_work(&numa_crng_init_work);
+}
#else
static void numa_crng_init(void) {}
#endif