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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 3.13 15/22] random32: avoid attempt to late reseed if in the middle of seeding
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:08:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140401040706.799542067@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140401040703.045139933@linuxfoundation.org>

3.13-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>

commit 05efa8c943b1d5d90fa8c8147571837573338bb6 upstream.

Commit 4af712e8df ("random32: add prandom_reseed_late() and call when
nonblocking pool becomes initialized") has added a late reseed stage
that happens as soon as the nonblocking pool is marked as initialized.

This fails in the case that the nonblocking pool gets initialized
during __prandom_reseed()'s call to get_random_bytes(). In that case
we'd double back into __prandom_reseed() in an attempt to do a late
reseed - deadlocking on 'lock' early on in the boot process.

Instead, just avoid even waiting to do a reseed if a reseed is already
occuring.

Fixes: 4af712e8df99 ("random32: add prandom_reseed_late() and call when nonblocking pool becomes initialized")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 lib/random32.c |   13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/lib/random32.c
+++ b/lib/random32.c
@@ -244,8 +244,19 @@ static void __prandom_reseed(bool late)
 	static bool latch = false;
 	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock);
 
+	/* Asking for random bytes might result in bytes getting
+	 * moved into the nonblocking pool and thus marking it
+	 * as initialized. In this case we would double back into
+	 * this function and attempt to do a late reseed.
+	 * Ignore the pointless attempt to reseed again if we're
+	 * already waiting for bytes when the nonblocking pool
+	 * got initialized.
+	 */
+
 	/* only allow initial seeding (late == false) once */
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&lock, flags);
+	if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&lock, flags))
+		return;
+
 	if (latch && !late)
 		goto out;
 	latch = true;



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-01  4:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-01  4:08 [PATCH 3.13 00/22] 3.13.9-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 01/22] ext4: atomically set inode->i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 02/22] rcuwalk: recheck mount_lock after mountpoint crossing attempts Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 03/22] Input: mousedev - fix race when creating mixed device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 04/22] Input: synaptics - add manual min/max quirk Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 05/22] Input: synaptics - add manual min/max quirk for ThinkPad X240 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 06/22] Input: cypress_ps2 - dont report as a button pads Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 07/22] xen/balloon: flush persistent kmaps in correct position Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 08/22] Revert "xen: properly account for _PAGE_NUMA during xen pte translations" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-10 10:05   ` Steven Noonan
2014-04-10 10:08     ` David Vrabel
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 09/22] i2c: cpm: Fix build by adding of_address.h and of_irq.h Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 10/22] drm/i915: Undo gtt scratch pte unmapping again Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 11/22] x86: fix boot on uniprocessor systems Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 12/22] make prepend_name() work correctly when called with negative *buflen Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-09 20:17   ` Sasha Levin
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 13/22] net: mvneta: rename MVNETA_GMAC2_PSC_ENABLE to MVNETA_GMAC2_PCS_ENABLE Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 14/22] net: mvneta: fix usage as a module on RGMII configurations Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 16/22] resizable namespace.c hashes Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 17/22] keep shadowed vfsmounts together Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 18/22] dont bother with propagate_mnt() unless the target is shared Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 19/22] switch mnt_hash to hlist Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 20/22] mm: close PageTail race Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 21/22] cgroup: protect modifications to cgroup_idr with cgroup_mutex Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-01  4:08 ` [PATCH 3.13 22/22] netfilter: nf_conntrack_dccp: fix skb_header_pointer API usages Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-02  0:03 ` [PATCH 3.13 00/22] 3.13.9-stable review Guenter Roeck
2014-04-03 22:45   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-04 13:30     ` Shuah Khan

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