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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
To: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Tudor-Dan Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>,
	Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>,
	Salvatore Benedetto <salvatore.benedetto@intel.com>,
	keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] lib/mpi: call cond_resched() from mpi_powm() loop
Date: Tue,  7 Nov 2017 14:15:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171107221527.98433-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

On a non-preemptible kernel, if KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE is called with the
largest permitted inputs (16384 bits), the kernel spends 10+ seconds
doing modular exponentiation in mpi_powm() without rescheduling.  If all
threads do it, it locks up the system.  Moreover, it can cause
rcu_sched-stall warnings.

Notwithstanding the insanity of doing this calculation in kernel mode
rather than in userspace, fix it by calling cond_resched() as each bit
from the exponent is processed.  It's still noninterruptible, but at
least it's preemptible now.

Do the cond_resched() once per bit rather than once per MPI limb because
each limb might still easily take 100+ milliseconds on slow CPUs.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.12+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---
 lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c b/lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c
index e24388a863a7..468fb7cd1221 100644
--- a/lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c
+++ b/lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
  *	 however I decided to publish this code under the plain GPL.
  */
 
+#include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include "mpi-internal.h"
 #include "longlong.h"
@@ -256,6 +257,7 @@ int mpi_powm(MPI res, MPI base, MPI exp, MPI mod)
 				}
 				e <<= 1;
 				c--;
+				cond_resched();
 			}
 
 			i--;
-- 
2.15.0.403.gc27cc4dac6-goog

             reply	other threads:[~2017-11-07 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-07 22:15 Eric Biggers [this message]
2017-11-08 12:50 ` [PATCH v2] lib/mpi: call cond_resched() from mpi_powm() loop David Howells
2017-11-08 19:18   ` Eric Biggers
2017-11-08 20:17   ` David Howells
2017-11-08 20:28     ` Eric Biggers
2017-11-08 20:49       ` Mat Martineau

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