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
next 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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