Patch "crypto: sun4i_ss_prng - convert lock to _bh in sun4i_ss_prng_generate" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    crypto: sun4i_ss_prng - convert lock to _bh in sun4i_ss_prng_generate

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     crypto-sun4i_ss_prng-convert-lock-to-_bh-in-sun4i_ss_prng_generate.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 2e7d1d61ea6c0f1c4da5eb82cafac750d55637a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 22:20:22 +0100
Subject: crypto: sun4i_ss_prng - convert lock to _bh in sun4i_ss_prng_generate

From: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com>

commit 2e7d1d61ea6c0f1c4da5eb82cafac750d55637a7 upstream.

Lockdep detects a possible deadlock in sun4i_ss_prng_generate() and
throws an "inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage" warning.
Disabling softirqs to fix this.

Fixes: b8ae5c7387ad ("crypto: sun4i-ss - support the Security System PRNG")
Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-prng.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-prng.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-prng.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ int sun4i_ss_prng_generate(struct crypto
 	algt = container_of(alg, struct sun4i_ss_alg_template, alg.rng);
 	ss = algt->ss;
 
-	spin_lock(&ss->slock);
+	spin_lock_bh(&ss->slock);
 
 	writel(mode, ss->base + SS_CTL);
 
@@ -51,6 +51,6 @@ int sun4i_ss_prng_generate(struct crypto
 	}
 
 	writel(0, ss->base + SS_CTL);
-	spin_unlock(&ss->slock);
+	spin_unlock_bh(&ss->slock);
 	return 0;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from artem.savkov@gmail.com are

queue-4.14/crypto-sun4i_ss_prng-convert-lock-to-_bh-in-sun4i_ss_prng_generate.patch
queue-4.14/crypto-sun4i_ss_prng-fix-return-value-of-sun4i_ss_prng_generate.patch