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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	hannes@stressinduktion.org, tytso@mit.edu, dborkman@redhat.com,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] random32: avoid attempt to late reseed if in the middle of seeding
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 02:01:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1395900095-15254-2-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1395900095-15254-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>

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.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
---
 lib/random32.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/random32.c b/lib/random32.c
index b33b23e..d67b6a7 100644
--- a/lib/random32.c
+++ b/lib/random32.c
@@ -245,8 +245,20 @@ 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;
 
-- 
1.8.3.2

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-27  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-27  6:01 [PATCH] random32: assign to network folks in MAINTAINERS Sasha Levin
2014-03-27  6:01 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2014-03-27  6:17   ` [PATCH v2] random32: avoid attempt to late reseed if in the middle of seeding Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-03-27  8:52   ` Daniel Borkmann
2014-03-28 20:03 ` [PATCH] random32: assign to network folks in MAINTAINERS David Miller

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