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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
To: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: defer_console_output: do not assume interrupts disabled
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 16:04:07 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YfzP50vDiJiaRVCr@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220203112915.1350753-1-john.ogness@linutronix.de>

On (22/02/03 12:35), John Ogness wrote:
> With commit 458df9fd4815 ("printk: remove separate printk_sched
> buffers and use printk buf instead") defer_console_output() was
> changed to no longer disable interrupts. However, it used the
> function __this_cpu_or(), which assumes interrupts disabled. That
> also should have been changed to this_cpu_or().
> 
> Although defer_console_output() is mostly used when interrupts are
> disabled, this is not always the case. One example is
> get_random_bytes(), which is often called with interrupts enabled.
> 
>   get_random_bytes()
>     warn_unseeded_randomness()
>       printk_deferred()
> 
> Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-04  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-03 11:29 [PATCH] printk: defer_console_output: do not assume interrupts disabled John Ogness
2022-02-03 11:33 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2022-02-04  7:04 ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2022-02-07  9:46   ` [PATCH v2] printk: defer_console_output: use atomic update John Ogness
2022-02-10 15:47     ` Petr Mladek
2022-02-11 11:22       ` John Ogness
2022-02-11 11:23         ` [PATCH v3] printk: use atomic updates for klogd work John Ogness
2022-02-14  5:35           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-02-15 15:26           ` Petr Mladek
2022-02-14  5:32         ` [PATCH v2] printk: defer_console_output: use atomic update Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-02-14  5:35           ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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