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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@qq.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, olivia@selenic.com,
	syzbot+c52ab18308964d248092@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwrng: core - fix task hung in hwrng_fillfn
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 19:41:11 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZWnGV39HJr9uUB2/@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tencent_0AD55DB29954CFB30D9825850DEE12325D07@qq.com>

On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 07:37:39PM +0800, Edward Adam Davis wrote:
>
> Reduce the scope of critical zone protection.
> The original critical zone contains a too large range, especially like 
> copy_to_user() should not be included in the critical zone.

Which part in particular is taking 143 seconds? The buffer is
only 128 bytes long.  Why is a 128-byte copy taking 143 seconds,
even with a page fault?

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-01 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-25 13:21 [syzbot] [crypto?] INFO: task hung in hwrng_fillfn syzbot
2023-11-26  7:07 ` [PATCH] hwrng: core - fix " Edward Adam Davis
2023-12-01  9:56   ` Herbert Xu
2023-12-01 11:37     ` Edward Adam Davis
2023-12-01 11:41       ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2023-12-01 12:34         ` Edward Adam Davis
2023-12-01 23:38           ` Herbert Xu
2023-12-02  1:01             ` [PATCH] hwrng: core - Fix page fault dead lock on mmap-ed hwrng Herbert Xu
2023-12-12 14:03               ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan

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