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From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] hw_random: core, sleep interruptible in read
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 16:50:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1448639443-21760-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151127130603.GA29503@gondor.apana.org.au>

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).

v2: use ERESTARTSYS instead of EINTR

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(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index a064237ff362..ca5a5325eb6f 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 = -ERESTARTSYS;
+			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;
 }
-- 
2.6.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-27 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-26 19:56 [PATCH] " Jiri Slaby
2015-11-27 13:06 ` Herbert Xu
2015-11-27 15:40   ` Jiri Slaby
2015-11-27 15:50   ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2015-12-04 14:40     ` [PATCH v2] " Herbert Xu

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