[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.15 19/46] zram: do not lookup algorithm in backends table

Sasha Levin
2022-08-14T15:42:52Z

From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>

[ Upstream commit dc89997264de565999a1cb55db3f295d3a8e457b ]

Always use crypto_has_comp() so that crypto can lookup module, call
usermodhelper to load the modules, wait for usermodhelper to finish and so
on. Otherwise crypto will do all of these steps under CPU hot-plug lock
and this looks like too much stuff to handle under the CPU hot-plug lock.
Besides this can end up in a deadlock when usermodhelper triggers a code
path that attempts to lock the CPU hot-plug lock, that zram already holds.

An example of such deadlock:

- path A. zram grabs CPU hot-plug lock, execs /sbin/modprobe from crypto
and waits for modprobe to finish

disksize_store
zcomp_create
__cpuhp_state_add_instance
__cpuhp_state_add_instance_cpuslocked
zcomp_cpu_up_prepare
crypto_alloc_base
crypto_alg_mod_lookup
call_usermodehelper_exec
wait_for_completion_killable
do_wait_for_common
schedule

- path B. async work kthread that brings in scsi device. It wants to
register CPUHP states at some point, and it needs the CPU hot-plug
lock for that, which is owned by zram.

async_run_entry_fn
scsi_probe_and_add_lun
scsi_mq_alloc_queue
blk_mq_init_queue
blk_mq_init_allocated_queue
blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs
__cpuhp_state_add_instance
__cpuhp_state_add_instance_cpuslocked
mutex_lock
schedule

- path C. modprobe sleeps, waiting for all aync works to finish.

load_module
do_init_module
async_synchronize_full
async_synchronize_cookie_domain
schedule

[senozhatsky@chromium.org: add comment]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220624060606.1014474-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220622023501.517125-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
index 052aa3f65514..0916de952e09 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
@@ -63,12 +63,6 @@ static int zcomp_strm_init(struct zcomp_strm *zstrm, struct zcomp *comp)

bool zcomp_available_algorithm(const char *comp)
{
- int i;
-
- i = sysfs_match_string(backends, comp);
- if (i >= 0)
- return true;
-
/*
* Crypto does not ignore a trailing new line symbol,
* so make sure you don't supply a string containing
@@ -217,6 +211,11 @@ struct zcomp *zcomp_create(const char *compress)
struct zcomp *comp;
int error;

+ /*
+ * Crypto API will execute /sbin/modprobe if the compression module
+ * is not loaded yet. We must do it here, otherwise we are about to
+ * call /sbin/modprobe under CPU hot-plug lock.
+ */
if (!zcomp_available_algorithm(compress))
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

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