[PATCH] ath9k: rng: escape sleep loop when unregistering

[PATCH] ath9k: rng: escape sleep loop when unregistering

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

There's currently an almost deadlock when ath9k shuts down if no random
bytes are available:

Thread A                                Thread B
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
rng_dev_read
 get_current_rng
  kref_get(&current_rng->ref)
 rng_get_data
  ath9k_rng_read
   msleep_interruptible(...)
                                       ath9k_rng_stop
				        devm_hwrng_unregister
					 devm_hwrng_release
					  hwrng_unregister
					   drop_current_rng
					     kref_put(&current_rng->ref, cleanup_rng)
					      // Does NOT call cleanup_rng here,
					      // because of thread A's kref_get.
					   wait_for_completion(&rng->cleanup_done);
					    // Waits for a really long time...
   // Eventually sleep is over...
 put_rng
  kref_put(&rng->ref, cleanup_rng);
   cleanup_rng
    complete(&rng->cleanup_done);
                                           return

When thread B doesn't return right away, sleep and other functions that
are waiting for ath9k_rng_stop to complete time out, and problems ensue.

This commit fixes the problem by using another completion inside of
ath9k_rng_read so that hwrng_unregister can interrupt it as needed.

Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
---
I do not have an ath9k and therefore I can't test this myself. The
analysis above was done completely statically, with no dynamic tracing
and just a bug report of symptoms from Gregory. So it might be totally
wrong. Thus, this patch very much requires Gregory's testing. Please
don't apply it until we have his `Tested-by` line.

 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h |  1 +
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c   | 26 ++++++++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
index 3ccf8cfc6b63..731db7f70e5d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
@@ -1072,6 +1072,7 @@ struct ath_softc {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ATH9K_HWRNG
 	struct hwrng rng_ops;
+	struct completion rng_shutdown;
 	u32 rng_last;
 	char rng_name[sizeof("ath9k_65535")];
 #endif
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
index cb5414265a9b..67c6b03a22ac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2015 Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2022 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>. All Rights Reserved.
  *
  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
  * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -52,18 +53,13 @@ static int ath9k_rng_data_read(struct ath_softc *sc, u32 *buf, u32 buf_size)
 	return j << 2;
 }
 
-static u32 ath9k_rng_delay_get(u32 fail_stats)
+static unsigned long ath9k_rng_delay_get(u32 fail_stats)
 {
-	u32 delay;
-
 	if (fail_stats < 100)
-		delay = 10;
+		return msecs_to_jiffies(10);
 	else if (fail_stats < 105)
-		delay = 1000;
-	else
-		delay = 10000;
-
-	return delay;
+		return msecs_to_jiffies(1000);
+	return msecs_to_jiffies(10000);
 }
 
 static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
@@ -83,7 +79,10 @@ static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
 		if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) || fail_stats > 110)
 			break;
 
-		msleep_interruptible(ath9k_rng_delay_get(++fail_stats));
+		if (wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(
+			    &sc->rng_shutdown,
+			    ath9k_rng_delay_get(++fail_stats)))
+			break;
 	}
 
 	if (wait && !bytes_read && max)
@@ -91,6 +90,11 @@ static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
 	return bytes_read;
 }
 
+static void ath9k_rng_cleanup(struct hwrng *rng)
+{
+	complete(&container_of(rng, struct ath_softc, rng_ops)->rng_shutdown);
+}
+
 void ath9k_rng_start(struct ath_softc *sc)
 {
 	static atomic_t serial = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
@@ -104,8 +108,10 @@ void ath9k_rng_start(struct ath_softc *sc)
 
 	snprintf(sc->rng_name, sizeof(sc->rng_name), "ath9k_%u",
 		 (atomic_inc_return(&serial) - 1) & U16_MAX);
+	init_completion(&sc->rng_shutdown);
 	sc->rng_ops.name = sc->rng_name;
 	sc->rng_ops.read = ath9k_rng_read;
+	sc->rng_ops.cleanup = ath9k_rng_cleanup;
 	sc->rng_ops.quality = 320;
 
 	if (devm_hwrng_register(sc->dev, &sc->rng_ops))
-- 
2.35.1

Re: [PATCH] ath9k: rng: escape sleep loop when unregistering

[Gregory Erwin]

Hi Jason,

I think you are on the right track, but even with this patch
'ip link set wlan0 down' blocks until the hwrng reader gives up.
The reader can either be userspace (dd, cat, etc) or it can also
be the rng_core module. I can replicate the hang in the two different
situations, so I gathered two stack traces for 'ip' depending on the
reader of hwrng:

-userspace-
$ ip link set wlan0 up
$ dd if=/dev/hwrng count=1 & # blocks until interrupted or receives -EIO
$ ip link set wlan0 down & # blocks until dd exits
$ cat /proc/$(pidof ip)/stack
[<0>] devres_release+0x2b/0x60
[<0>] ath9k_rng_stop+0x27/0x40 [ath9k]
[<0>] ath9k_stop+0x40/0x230 [ath9k]
[<0>] drv_stop+0x34/0x100 [mac80211]
[<0>] ieee80211_do_stop+0x685/0x880 [mac80211]
[<0>] ieee80211_stop+0x41/0x170 [mac80211]
[<0>] __dev_close_many+0x9e/0x110
[<0>] __dev_change_flags+0x1a7/0x250
[<0>] dev_change_flags+0x26/0x60
[<0>] do_setlink+0x32d/0x1220
[<0>] __rtnl_newlink+0x5a2/0x9f0
[<0>] rtnl_newlink+0x47/0x70
[<0>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x143/0x370
[<0>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x55/0x100
[<0>] netlink_unicast+0x243/0x390
[<0>] netlink_sendmsg+0x254/0x4b0
[<0>] sock_sendmsg+0x60/0x70
[<0>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x264/0x2a0
[<0>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x96/0xd0
[<0>] __sys_sendmsg+0x7a/0xd0
[<0>] do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x90
[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

-rng_core-
$ ip link set wlan0 up
$ # wait a while, maybe a minute or two
$ ip link set wlan0 down & # blocks until 10s after 'hwrng: no data available'
$ cat /proc/$(pidof ip)/stack
[<0>] kthread_stop+0x65/0x170
[<0>] hwrng_unregister+0xbe/0xe0 [rng_core]
[<0>] devres_release+0x2b/0x60
[<0>] ath9k_rng_stop+0x27/0x40 [ath9k]
[<0>] ath9k_stop+0x40/0x230 [ath9k]
[<0>] drv_stop+0x34/0x100 [mac80211]
[<0>] ieee80211_do_stop+0x685/0x880 [mac80211]
[<0>] ieee80211_stop+0x41/0x170 [mac80211]
[<0>] __dev_close_many+0x9e/0x110
[<0>] __dev_change_flags+0x1a7/0x250
[<0>] dev_change_flags+0x26/0x60
[<0>] do_setlink+0x32d/0x1220
[<0>] __rtnl_newlink+0x5a2/0x9f0
[<0>] rtnl_newlink+0x47/0x70
[<0>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x143/0x370
[<0>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x55/0x100
[<0>] netlink_unicast+0x243/0x390
[<0>] netlink_sendmsg+0x254/0x4b0
[<0>] sock_sendmsg+0x60/0x70
[<0>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x264/0x2a0
[<0>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x96/0xd0
[<0>] __sys_sendmsg+0x7a/0xd0
[<0>] do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x90
[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Regards,
 - Greg.



On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 6:15 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
>
> There's currently an almost deadlock when ath9k shuts down if no random
> bytes are available:
>
> Thread A                                Thread B
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> rng_dev_read
>  get_current_rng
>   kref_get(&current_rng->ref)
>  rng_get_data
>   ath9k_rng_read
>    msleep_interruptible(...)
>                                        ath9k_rng_stop
>                                         devm_hwrng_unregister
>                                          devm_hwrng_release
>                                           hwrng_unregister
>                                            drop_current_rng
>                                              kref_put(&current_rng->ref, cleanup_rng)
>                                               // Does NOT call cleanup_rng here,
>                                               // because of thread A's kref_get.
>                                            wait_for_completion(&rng->cleanup_done);
>                                             // Waits for a really long time...
>    // Eventually sleep is over...
>  put_rng
>   kref_put(&rng->ref, cleanup_rng);
>    cleanup_rng
>     complete(&rng->cleanup_done);
>                                            return
>
> When thread B doesn't return right away, sleep and other functions that
> are waiting for ath9k_rng_stop to complete time out, and problems ensue.
>
> This commit fixes the problem by using another completion inside of
> ath9k_rng_read so that hwrng_unregister can interrupt it as needed.
>
> Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
> Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
> Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
> ---
> I do not have an ath9k and therefore I can't test this myself. The
> analysis above was done completely statically, with no dynamic tracing
> and just a bug report of symptoms from Gregory. So it might be totally
> wrong. Thus, this patch very much requires Gregory's testing. Please
> don't apply it until we have his `Tested-by` line.
>
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h |  1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c   | 26 ++++++++++++++++----------
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
> index 3ccf8cfc6b63..731db7f70e5d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
> @@ -1072,6 +1072,7 @@ struct ath_softc {
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ATH9K_HWRNG
>         struct hwrng rng_ops;
> +       struct completion rng_shutdown;
>         u32 rng_last;
>         char rng_name[sizeof("ath9k_65535")];
>  #endif
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
> index cb5414265a9b..67c6b03a22ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
>  /*
>   * Copyright (c) 2015 Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.
> + * Copyright (C) 2022 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>. All Rights Reserved.
>   *
>   * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
>   * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
> @@ -52,18 +53,13 @@ static int ath9k_rng_data_read(struct ath_softc *sc, u32 *buf, u32 buf_size)
>         return j << 2;
>  }
>
> -static u32 ath9k_rng_delay_get(u32 fail_stats)
> +static unsigned long ath9k_rng_delay_get(u32 fail_stats)
>  {
> -       u32 delay;
> -
>         if (fail_stats < 100)
> -               delay = 10;
> +               return msecs_to_jiffies(10);
>         else if (fail_stats < 105)
> -               delay = 1000;
> -       else
> -               delay = 10000;
> -
> -       return delay;
> +               return msecs_to_jiffies(1000);
> +       return msecs_to_jiffies(10000);
>  }
>
>  static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
> @@ -83,7 +79,10 @@ static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
>                 if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) || fail_stats > 110)
>                         break;
>
> -               msleep_interruptible(ath9k_rng_delay_get(++fail_stats));
> +               if (wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(
> +                           &sc->rng_shutdown,
> +                           ath9k_rng_delay_get(++fail_stats)))
> +                       break;
>         }
>
>         if (wait && !bytes_read && max)
> @@ -91,6 +90,11 @@ static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
>         return bytes_read;
>  }
>
> +static void ath9k_rng_cleanup(struct hwrng *rng)
> +{
> +       complete(&container_of(rng, struct ath_softc, rng_ops)->rng_shutdown);
> +}
> +
>  void ath9k_rng_start(struct ath_softc *sc)
>  {
>         static atomic_t serial = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
> @@ -104,8 +108,10 @@ void ath9k_rng_start(struct ath_softc *sc)
>
>         snprintf(sc->rng_name, sizeof(sc->rng_name), "ath9k_%u",
>                  (atomic_inc_return(&serial) - 1) & U16_MAX);
> +       init_completion(&sc->rng_shutdown);
>         sc->rng_ops.name = sc->rng_name;
>         sc->rng_ops.read = ath9k_rng_read;
> +       sc->rng_ops.cleanup = ath9k_rng_cleanup;
>         sc->rng_ops.quality = 320;
>
>         if (devm_hwrng_register(sc->dev, &sc->rng_ops))
> --
> 2.35.1
>

Re: [PATCH] ath9k: rng: escape sleep loop when unregistering

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Hi Gregory,

On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 10:25:26PM -0700, Gregory Erwin wrote:
> Hi Jason,
> 
> I think you are on the right track, but even with this patch
> 'ip link set wlan0 down' blocks until the hwrng reader gives up.
> The reader can either be userspace (dd, cat, etc) or it can also
> be the rng_core module. I can replicate the hang in the two different
> situations, so I gathered two stack traces for 'ip' depending on the
> reader of hwrng:

Thanks for the traces. I'll send a v2 to you shortly.

Jason

[PATCH v2] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Even though hwrng provides a `wait` parameter, it doesn't work very well
when waiting for a long time. There are numerous deadlocks that emerge
related to shutdown. Work around this API limitation by waiting for a
shorter amount of time and erroring more frequently. This commit also
prevents hwrng from splatting messages to dmesg when there's a timeout
and prevents calling msleep_interruptible() for tons of time when a
thread is supposed to be shutting down, since msleep_interruptible()
isn't actually interrupted by kthread_stop().

Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO+Okf5k+C+SE6pMVfPf-d8MfVPVq4PO7EY8Hys_DVXtent3HA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
---
I do not have an ath9k and therefore I can't test this myself. The
analysis above was done completely statically, with no dynamic tracing
and just a bug report of symptoms from Gregory. So it might be totally
wrong. Thus, this patch very much requires Gregory's testing. Please
don't apply it until we have his `Tested-by` line.

 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c        | 10 ++++++++--
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c | 19 ++-----------------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index 16f227b995e8..af1c1905bb7e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -513,8 +513,13 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
 			break;
 
 		if (rc <= 0) {
-			pr_warn("hwrng: no data available\n");
-			msleep_interruptible(10000);
+			int i;
+
+			for (i = 0; i < 100; ++i) {
+				if (kthread_should_stop() ||
+				    msleep_interruptible(10000 / 100))
+					goto out;
+			}
 			continue;
 		}
 
@@ -529,6 +534,7 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
 		add_hwgenerator_randomness((void *)rng_fillbuf, rc,
 					   entropy >> 10);
 	}
+out:
 	hwrng_fill = NULL;
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
index cb5414265a9b..883110c66e5e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
@@ -52,20 +52,6 @@ static int ath9k_rng_data_read(struct ath_softc *sc, u32 *buf, u32 buf_size)
 	return j << 2;
 }
 
-static u32 ath9k_rng_delay_get(u32 fail_stats)
-{
-	u32 delay;
-
-	if (fail_stats < 100)
-		delay = 10;
-	else if (fail_stats < 105)
-		delay = 1000;
-	else
-		delay = 10000;
-
-	return delay;
-}
-
 static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
 {
 	struct ath_softc *sc = container_of(rng, struct ath_softc, rng_ops);
@@ -80,10 +66,9 @@ static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
 			bytes_read += max & 3UL;
 			memzero_explicit(&word, sizeof(word));
 		}
-		if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) || fail_stats > 110)
+		if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) ||
+		    ++fail_stats >= 100 || msleep_interruptible(5))
 			break;
-
-		msleep_interruptible(ath9k_rng_delay_get(++fail_stats));
 	}
 
 	if (wait && !bytes_read && max)
-- 
2.35.1

Re: [PATCH v2] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Gregory Erwin]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 1:44 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
>
> Even though hwrng provides a `wait` parameter, it doesn't work very well
> when waiting for a long time. There are numerous deadlocks that emerge
> related to shutdown. Work around this API limitation by waiting for a
> shorter amount of time and erroring more frequently. This commit also
> prevents hwrng from splatting messages to dmesg when there's a timeout
> and prevents calling msleep_interruptible() for tons of time when a
> thread is supposed to be shutting down, since msleep_interruptible()
> isn't actually interrupted by kthread_stop().
>
> Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
> Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO+Okf5k+C+SE6pMVfPf-d8MfVPVq4PO7EY8Hys_DVXtent3HA@mail.gmail.com/
> Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
> ---
> I do not have an ath9k and therefore I can't test this myself. The
> analysis above was done completely statically, with no dynamic tracing
> and just a bug report of symptoms from Gregory. So it might be totally
> wrong. Thus, this patch very much requires Gregory's testing. Please
> don't apply it until we have his `Tested-by` line.
>
>  drivers/char/hw_random/core.c        | 10 ++++++++--
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c | 19 ++-----------------
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> index 16f227b995e8..af1c1905bb7e 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> @@ -513,8 +513,13 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
>                         break;
>
>                 if (rc <= 0) {
> -                       pr_warn("hwrng: no data available\n");
> -                       msleep_interruptible(10000);
> +                       int i;
> +
> +                       for (i = 0; i < 100; ++i) {
> +                               if (kthread_should_stop() ||
> +                                   msleep_interruptible(10000 / 100))
> +                                       goto out;
> +                       }
>                         continue;
>                 }
>
> @@ -529,6 +534,7 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
>                 add_hwgenerator_randomness((void *)rng_fillbuf, rc,
>                                            entropy >> 10);
>         }
> +out:
>         hwrng_fill = NULL;
>         return 0;
>  }
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
> index cb5414265a9b..883110c66e5e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
> @@ -52,20 +52,6 @@ static int ath9k_rng_data_read(struct ath_softc *sc, u32 *buf, u32 buf_size)
>         return j << 2;
>  }
>
> -static u32 ath9k_rng_delay_get(u32 fail_stats)
> -{
> -       u32 delay;
> -
> -       if (fail_stats < 100)
> -               delay = 10;
> -       else if (fail_stats < 105)
> -               delay = 1000;
> -       else
> -               delay = 10000;
> -
> -       return delay;
> -}
> -
>  static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
>  {
>         struct ath_softc *sc = container_of(rng, struct ath_softc, rng_ops);
> @@ -80,10 +66,9 @@ static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
>                         bytes_read += max & 3UL;
>                         memzero_explicit(&word, sizeof(word));
>                 }
> -               if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) || fail_stats > 110)
> +               if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) ||
> +                   ++fail_stats >= 100 || msleep_interruptible(5))
>                         break;
> -
> -               msleep_interruptible(ath9k_rng_delay_get(++fail_stats));
>         }
>
>         if (wait && !bytes_read && max)
> --
> 2.35.1
>

Jason,

This patch is working as you described. Trying to read from /dev/hwrng
consistently blocks for only 1.3s before returning an IO error. The longest
that I observed 'ip link set wlan0 down' to block was also about 1.3s,
and that was immediately after 'cat /dev/hwrng'. Additionally, the longest
duration that I observed for wiphy_suspend() to return was just under 100ms.

Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>

Re: [PATCH v2] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Hi Gregory,

On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 2:13 AM Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com> wrote:
> This patch is working as you described. Trying to read from /dev/hwrng
> consistently blocks for only 1.3s before returning an IO error. The longest
> that I observed 'ip link set wlan0 down' to block was also about 1.3s,
> and that was immediately after 'cat /dev/hwrng'. Additionally, the longest
> duration that I observed for wiphy_suspend() to return was just under 100ms.
>
> Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>

Great, thanks for testing. I think that barring more invasive changes
to the hwrng subsystem, a heuristic approach like this is the best
we're going to do inside the ath9k driver itself.

So Toke/Kalle - can you queue this up?

Jason

Re: [PATCH v2] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 10:44:33PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
.
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> index 16f227b995e8..af1c1905bb7e 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> @@ -513,8 +513,13 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
>  			break;
>  
>  		if (rc <= 0) {
> -			pr_warn("hwrng: no data available\n");
> -			msleep_interruptible(10000);
> +			int i;
> +
> +			for (i = 0; i < 100; ++i) {
> +				if (kthread_should_stop() ||
> +				    msleep_interruptible(10000 / 100))
> +					goto out;
> +			}

Please use schedule_timeout_interruptible.  But if you're going
to make it interruptible it should probably at least try to do
something about signals rather than just ignore them.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

[PATCH v3] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Even though hwrng provides a `wait` parameter, it doesn't work very well
when waiting for a long time. There are numerous deadlocks that emerge
related to shutdown. Work around this API limitation by waiting for a
shorter amount of time and erroring more frequently. This commit also
prevents hwrng from splatting messages to dmesg when there's a timeout
and prevents calling msleep_interruptible() for tons of time when a
thread is supposed to be shutting down, since msleep_interruptible()
isn't actually interrupted by kthread_stop().

Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO+Okf5k+C+SE6pMVfPf-d8MfVPVq4PO7EY8Hys_DVXtent3HA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c        | 10 ++++++++--
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c | 20 +++-----------------
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index 16f227b995e8..a15273271d87 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -513,8 +513,13 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
 			break;
 
 		if (rc <= 0) {
-			pr_warn("hwrng: no data available\n");
-			msleep_interruptible(10000);
+			int i;
+
+			for (i = 0; i < 100; ++i) {
+				if (kthread_should_stop() ||
+				    schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ / 20))
+					goto out;
+			}
 			continue;
 		}
 
@@ -529,6 +534,7 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
 		add_hwgenerator_randomness((void *)rng_fillbuf, rc,
 					   entropy >> 10);
 	}
+out:
 	hwrng_fill = NULL;
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
index cb5414265a9b..39195f89ea85 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
@@ -52,20 +52,6 @@ static int ath9k_rng_data_read(struct ath_softc *sc, u32 *buf, u32 buf_size)
 	return j << 2;
 }
 
-static u32 ath9k_rng_delay_get(u32 fail_stats)
-{
-	u32 delay;
-
-	if (fail_stats < 100)
-		delay = 10;
-	else if (fail_stats < 105)
-		delay = 1000;
-	else
-		delay = 10000;
-
-	return delay;
-}
-
 static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
 {
 	struct ath_softc *sc = container_of(rng, struct ath_softc, rng_ops);
@@ -80,10 +66,10 @@ static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
 			bytes_read += max & 3UL;
 			memzero_explicit(&word, sizeof(word));
 		}
-		if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) || fail_stats > 110)
+		if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) || ++fail_stats >= 100 ||
+		    schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ / 20) ||
+		    ((current->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && kthread_should_stop()))
 			break;
-
-		msleep_interruptible(ath9k_rng_delay_get(++fail_stats));
 	}
 
 	if (wait && !bytes_read && max)
-- 
2.35.1

[PATCH v4] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Even though hwrng provides a `wait` parameter, it doesn't work very well
when waiting for a long time. There are numerous deadlocks that emerge
related to shutdown. Work around this API limitation by waiting for a
shorter amount of time and erroring more frequently. This commit also
prevents hwrng from splatting messages to dmesg when there's a timeout
and prevents calling msleep_interruptible() for tons of time when a
thread is supposed to be shutting down, since msleep_interruptible()
isn't actually interrupted by kthread_stop().

Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO+Okf5k+C+SE6pMVfPf-d8MfVPVq4PO7EY8Hys_DVXtent3HA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c        | 10 ++++++++--
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c | 20 +++-----------------
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index 16f227b995e8..a15273271d87 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -513,8 +513,13 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
 			break;
 
 		if (rc <= 0) {
-			pr_warn("hwrng: no data available\n");
-			msleep_interruptible(10000);
+			int i;
+
+			for (i = 0; i < 100; ++i) {
+				if (kthread_should_stop() ||
+				    schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ / 20))
+					goto out;
+			}
 			continue;
 		}
 
@@ -529,6 +534,7 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
 		add_hwgenerator_randomness((void *)rng_fillbuf, rc,
 					   entropy >> 10);
 	}
+out:
 	hwrng_fill = NULL;
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
index cb5414265a9b..757603d1949d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
@@ -52,20 +52,6 @@ static int ath9k_rng_data_read(struct ath_softc *sc, u32 *buf, u32 buf_size)
 	return j << 2;
 }
 
-static u32 ath9k_rng_delay_get(u32 fail_stats)
-{
-	u32 delay;
-
-	if (fail_stats < 100)
-		delay = 10;
-	else if (fail_stats < 105)
-		delay = 1000;
-	else
-		delay = 10000;
-
-	return delay;
-}
-
 static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
 {
 	struct ath_softc *sc = container_of(rng, struct ath_softc, rng_ops);
@@ -80,10 +66,10 @@ static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
 			bytes_read += max & 3UL;
 			memzero_explicit(&word, sizeof(word));
 		}
-		if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) || fail_stats > 110)
+		if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) || ++fail_stats >= 100 ||
+		    ((current->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && kthread_should_stop()) ||
+		    schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ / 20))
 			break;
-
-		msleep_interruptible(ath9k_rng_delay_get(++fail_stats));
 	}
 
 	if (wait && !bytes_read && max)
-- 
2.35.1

[PATCH v5] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Even though hwrng provides a `wait` parameter, it doesn't work very well
when waiting for a long time. There are numerous deadlocks that emerge
related to shutdown. Work around this API limitation by waiting for a
shorter amount of time and erroring more frequently. This commit also
prevents hwrng from splatting messages to dmesg when there's a timeout
and switches to using schedule_timeout_interruptible(), so that the
kthread can be stopped.

Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO+Okf5k+C+SE6pMVfPf-d8MfVPVq4PO7EY8Hys_DVXtent3HA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
---
Sorry for all the churn here in sending a v4 and v5 so soon. The
semantics of schedule_timeout_interruptible vs msleep_interruptible with
respect to kthreads is kind of confusing. I'll send a follow up patch
for that elsewhere. For now I think this should suffice for fixing the
bug.

 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c        |  3 +--
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c | 20 +++-----------------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index 16f227b995e8..5309fab98631 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -513,8 +513,7 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
 			break;
 
 		if (rc <= 0) {
-			pr_warn("hwrng: no data available\n");
-			msleep_interruptible(10000);
+			schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ * 10);
 			continue;
 		}
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
index cb5414265a9b..757603d1949d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
@@ -52,20 +52,6 @@ static int ath9k_rng_data_read(struct ath_softc *sc, u32 *buf, u32 buf_size)
 	return j << 2;
 }
 
-static u32 ath9k_rng_delay_get(u32 fail_stats)
-{
-	u32 delay;
-
-	if (fail_stats < 100)
-		delay = 10;
-	else if (fail_stats < 105)
-		delay = 1000;
-	else
-		delay = 10000;
-
-	return delay;
-}
-
 static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
 {
 	struct ath_softc *sc = container_of(rng, struct ath_softc, rng_ops);
@@ -80,10 +66,10 @@ static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
 			bytes_read += max & 3UL;
 			memzero_explicit(&word, sizeof(word));
 		}
-		if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) || fail_stats > 110)
+		if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) || ++fail_stats >= 100 ||
+		    ((current->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && kthread_should_stop()) ||
+		    schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ / 20))
 			break;
-
-		msleep_interruptible(ath9k_rng_delay_get(++fail_stats));
 	}
 
 	if (wait && !bytes_read && max)
-- 
2.35.1

[PATCH v6] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Even though hwrng provides a `wait` parameter, it doesn't work very well
when waiting for a long time. There are numerous deadlocks that emerge
related to shutdown. Work around this API limitation by waiting for a
shorter amount of time and erroring more frequently. This commit also
prevents hwrng from splatting messages to dmesg when there's a timeout
and switches to using schedule_timeout_interruptible(), so that the
kthread can be stopped.

Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO+Okf5k+C+SE6pMVfPf-d8MfVPVq4PO7EY8Hys_DVXtent3HA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c        |  5 +++--
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c | 20 +++-----------------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index 16f227b995e8..9987f0642285 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -513,8 +513,9 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
 			break;
 
 		if (rc <= 0) {
-			pr_warn("hwrng: no data available\n");
-			msleep_interruptible(10000);
+			if (kthread_should_stop())
+				break;
+			schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ * 10);
 			continue;
 		}
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
index cb5414265a9b..757603d1949d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c
@@ -52,20 +52,6 @@ static int ath9k_rng_data_read(struct ath_softc *sc, u32 *buf, u32 buf_size)
 	return j << 2;
 }
 
-static u32 ath9k_rng_delay_get(u32 fail_stats)
-{
-	u32 delay;
-
-	if (fail_stats < 100)
-		delay = 10;
-	else if (fail_stats < 105)
-		delay = 1000;
-	else
-		delay = 10000;
-
-	return delay;
-}
-
 static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
 {
 	struct ath_softc *sc = container_of(rng, struct ath_softc, rng_ops);
@@ -80,10 +66,10 @@ static int ath9k_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
 			bytes_read += max & 3UL;
 			memzero_explicit(&word, sizeof(word));
 		}
-		if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) || fail_stats > 110)
+		if (!wait || !max || likely(bytes_read) || ++fail_stats >= 100 ||
+		    ((current->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && kthread_should_stop()) ||
+		    schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ / 20))
 			break;
-
-		msleep_interruptible(ath9k_rng_delay_get(++fail_stats));
 	}
 
 	if (wait && !bytes_read && max)
-- 
2.35.1

Re: [PATCH v6] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> writes:

> Even though hwrng provides a `wait` parameter, it doesn't work very well
> when waiting for a long time. There are numerous deadlocks that emerge
> related to shutdown. Work around this API limitation by waiting for a
> shorter amount of time and erroring more frequently. This commit also
> prevents hwrng from splatting messages to dmesg when there's a timeout
> and switches to using schedule_timeout_interruptible(), so that the
> kthread can be stopped.
>
> Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
> Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO+Okf5k+C+SE6pMVfPf-d8MfVPVq4PO7EY8Hys_DVXtent3HA@mail.gmail.com/
> Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

Gregory, care to take this version for a spin as well to double-check
that it still resolves the issue? :)

-Toke

Re: [PATCH v6] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Gregory Erwin]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 5:18 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> writes:
>
> > Even though hwrng provides a `wait` parameter, it doesn't work very well
> > when waiting for a long time. There are numerous deadlocks that emerge
> > related to shutdown. Work around this API limitation by waiting for a
> > shorter amount of time and erroring more frequently. This commit also
> > prevents hwrng from splatting messages to dmesg when there's a timeout
> > and switches to using schedule_timeout_interruptible(), so that the
> > kthread can be stopped.
> >
> > Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
> > Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO+Okf5k+C+SE6pMVfPf-d8MfVPVq4PO7EY8Hys_DVXtent3HA@mail.gmail.com/
> > Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
> > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
>
> Gregory, care to take this version for a spin as well to double-check
> that it still resolves the issue? :)
>
> -Toke
>

With patch v6, reads from /dev/hwrng block for 5-6s, during which 'ip link set
wlan0 down' will also block. Otherwise, 'ip link set wlan0 down' returns
immediately. Similarly, wiphy_suspend() consistently returns in under 10ms.

Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>

Re: [PATCH v6] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Hi Gregory,

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 3:39 AM Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 5:18 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> writes:
> >
> > > Even though hwrng provides a `wait` parameter, it doesn't work very well
> > > when waiting for a long time. There are numerous deadlocks that emerge
> > > related to shutdown. Work around this API limitation by waiting for a
> > > shorter amount of time and erroring more frequently. This commit also
> > > prevents hwrng from splatting messages to dmesg when there's a timeout
> > > and switches to using schedule_timeout_interruptible(), so that the
> > > kthread can be stopped.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
> > > Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > > Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO+Okf5k+C+SE6pMVfPf-d8MfVPVq4PO7EY8Hys_DVXtent3HA@mail.gmail.com/
> > > Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
> > > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
> >
> > Gregory, care to take this version for a spin as well to double-check
> > that it still resolves the issue? :)
> >
> > -Toke
> >
>
> With patch v6, reads from /dev/hwrng block for 5-6s, during which 'ip link set
> wlan0 down' will also block. Otherwise, 'ip link set wlan0 down' returns
> immediately. Similarly, wiphy_suspend() consistently returns in under 10ms.
>
> Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>

Oh 5-6s... so it's actually worse. Yikes. Sounds like v4 might have
been the better patch, then?

Jason

Re: [PATCH v6] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 12:46 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Gregory,
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 3:39 AM Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 5:18 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > Even though hwrng provides a `wait` parameter, it doesn't work very well
> > > > when waiting for a long time. There are numerous deadlocks that emerge
> > > > related to shutdown. Work around this API limitation by waiting for a
> > > > shorter amount of time and erroring more frequently. This commit also
> > > > prevents hwrng from splatting messages to dmesg when there's a timeout
> > > > and switches to using schedule_timeout_interruptible(), so that the
> > > > kthread can be stopped.
> > > >
> > > > Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
> > > > Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
> > > > Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
> > > > Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
> > > > Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
> > > > Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> > > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > > > Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
> > > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
> > > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO+Okf5k+C+SE6pMVfPf-d8MfVPVq4PO7EY8Hys_DVXtent3HA@mail.gmail.com/
> > > > Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
> > >
> > > Gregory, care to take this version for a spin as well to double-check
> > > that it still resolves the issue? :)
> > >
> > > -Toke
> > >
> >
> > With patch v6, reads from /dev/hwrng block for 5-6s, during which 'ip link set
> > wlan0 down' will also block. Otherwise, 'ip link set wlan0 down' returns
> > immediately. Similarly, wiphy_suspend() consistently returns in under 10ms.
> >
> > Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
>
> Oh 5-6s... so it's actually worse. Yikes. Sounds like v4 might have
> been the better patch, then?

$ curl https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220627104955.534013-1-Jason@zx2c4.com/raw
| git am

That one, if you want to give it a spin and see if that 5-6s is back
to ~1s or less.

Jason

Re: [PATCH v6] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 12:48:50PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>
> $ curl https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220627104955.534013-1-Jason@zx2c4.com/raw
> | git am
> 
> That one, if you want to give it a spin and see if that 5-6s is back
> to ~1s or less.

Whatever caused kthread_should_stop to return true should have
woken the thread and caused schedule_timeout to return.

If it's not waking the thread up then we should find out why.

Oh wait you're checking kthread_should_stop before the schedule
call instead of afterwards, that would do it.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: [PATCH v6] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Hi Herbert,

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 12:52 PM Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 12:48:50PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> >
> > $ curl https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220627104955.534013-1-Jason@zx2c4.com/raw
> > | git am
> >
> > That one, if you want to give it a spin and see if that 5-6s is back
> > to ~1s or less.
>
> Whatever caused kthread_should_stop to return true should have
> woken the thread and caused schedule_timeout to return.
>
> If it's not waking the thread up then we should find out why.
>
> Oh wait you're checking kthread_should_stop before the schedule
> call instead of afterwards, that would do it.

Oh, that's a really good observation, thank you! I'll send a patch
that does it right. I have to check kthread_should_stop() before,
because the wake up might have been consumed by a sleep inside of the
hwrng ->read_data() function, causing it to return early. So we have
to check it before going to sleep again. And after, I need to be
checking the return value of schedule_timeout_interruptible(), which
I'm not in this latest. So v+1 coming up.

By the way, this thread might interest you:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220627145716.641185-1-Jason@zx2c4.com/

Jason

Re: [PATCH v6] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Hi again,

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 12:55:57PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Oh wait you're checking kthread_should_stop before the schedule
> > call instead of afterwards, that would do it.
> 
> Oh, that's a really good observation, thank you! 

Wait, no. I already am kthread_should_stop() it afterwards. That
"continue" goes to the top of the loop, which checks it in the while()
statement. So something else is amiss. I guess I'll investigate.

Jason

Re: [PATCH v6] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Hi Herbert,

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 02:05:34PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 12:55:57PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > > Oh wait you're checking kthread_should_stop before the schedule
> > > call instead of afterwards, that would do it.
> > 
> > Oh, that's a really good observation, thank you! 
> 
> Wait, no. I already am kthread_should_stop() it afterwards. That
> "continue" goes to the top of the loop, which checks it in the while()
> statement. So something else is amiss. I guess I'll investigate.

I worked out a solution for the "larger problem" now. It's a bit
involved, but not too bad. I'll post a patch shortly.

Jason

Re: [PATCH v6] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 02:07:35PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Even though hwrng provides a `wait` parameter, it doesn't work very well
> when waiting for a long time. There are numerous deadlocks that emerge
> related to shutdown. Work around this API limitation by waiting for a
> shorter amount of time and erroring more frequently. This commit also
> prevents hwrng from splatting messages to dmesg when there's a timeout
> and switches to using schedule_timeout_interruptible(), so that the
> kthread can be stopped.
> 
> Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
> Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO+Okf5k+C+SE6pMVfPf-d8MfVPVq4PO7EY8Hys_DVXtent3HA@mail.gmail.com/
> Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
> ---
>  drivers/char/hw_random/core.c        |  5 +++--
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c | 20 +++-----------------
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Thanks,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: [PATCH v6] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> writes:

> Even though hwrng provides a `wait` parameter, it doesn't work very well
> when waiting for a long time. There are numerous deadlocks that emerge
> related to shutdown. Work around this API limitation by waiting for a
> shorter amount of time and erroring more frequently. This commit also
> prevents hwrng from splatting messages to dmesg when there's a timeout
> and switches to using schedule_timeout_interruptible(), so that the
> kthread can be stopped.
>
> Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
> Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO+Okf5k+C+SE6pMVfPf-d8MfVPVq4PO7EY8Hys_DVXtent3HA@mail.gmail.com/
> Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>