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    crypto: algboss - don't wait during notifier callback · 77251e41
    Eric Biggers authored
    When a crypto template needs to be instantiated, CRYPTO_MSG_ALG_REQUEST
    is sent to crypto_chain.  cryptomgr_schedule_probe() handles this by
    starting a thread to instantiate the template, then waiting for this
    thread to complete via crypto_larval::completion.
    
    This can deadlock because instantiating the template may require loading
    modules, and this (apparently depending on userspace) may need to wait
    for the crc-t10dif module (lib/crc-t10dif.c) to be loaded.  But
    crc-t10dif's module_init function uses crypto_register_notifier() and
    therefore takes crypto_chain.rwsem for write.  That can't proceed until
    the notifier callback has finished, as it holds this semaphore for read.
    
    Fix this by removing the wait on crypto_larval::completion from within
    cryptomgr_schedule_probe().  It's actually unnecessary because
    crypto_alg_mod_lookup() calls crypto_larval_wait() itself after sending
    CRYPTO_MSG_ALG_REQUEST.
    
    This only actually became a problem in v4.20 due to commit b7637754
    ("crc-t10dif: Pick better transform if one becomes available"), but the
    unnecessary wait was much older.
    
    BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207159
    
    
    Reported-by: default avatarMike Gerow <gerow@google.com>
    Fixes: 39871037
    
     ("crypto: algapi - Move larval completion into algboss")
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.6+
    Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarKai Lüke <kai@kinvolk.io>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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