From: Petr Pavlu petr.pavlu@suse.com
commit 0254127ab977e70798707a7a2b757c9f3c971210 upstream.
During a system boot, it can happen that the kernel receives a burst of requests to insert the same module but loading it eventually fails during its init call. For instance, udev can make a request to insert a frequency module for each individual CPU when another frequency module is already loaded which causes the init function of the new module to return an error.
Since commit 6e6de3dee51a ("kernel/module.c: Only return -EEXIST for modules that have finished loading"), the kernel waits for modules in MODULE_STATE_GOING state to finish unloading before making another attempt to load the same module.
This creates unnecessary work in the described scenario and delays the boot. In the worst case, it can prevent udev from loading drivers for other devices and might cause timeouts of services waiting on them and subsequently a failed boot.
This patch attempts a different solution for the problem 6e6de3dee51a was trying to solve. Rather than waiting for the unloading to complete, it returns a different error code (-EBUSY) for modules in the GOING state. This should avoid the error situation that was described in 6e6de3dee51a (user space attempting to load a dependent module because the -EEXIST error code would suggest to user space that the first module had been loaded successfully), while avoiding the delay situation too.
This has been tested on linux-next since December 2022 and passes all kmod selftests except test 0009 with module compression enabled but it has been confirmed that this issue has existed and has gone unnoticed since prior to this commit and can also be reproduced without module compression with a simple usleep(5000000) on tools/modprobe.c [0]. These failures are caused by hitting the kernel mod_concurrent_max and can happen either due to a self inflicted kernel module auto-loead DoS somehow or on a system with large CPU count and each CPU count incorrectly triggering many module auto-loads. Both of those issues need to be fixed in-kernel.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y9A4fiobL6IHp%2F%2FP@bombadil.infradead.org/
Fixes: 6e6de3dee51a ("kernel/module.c: Only return -EEXIST for modules that have finished loading") Co-developed-by: Martin Wilck mwilck@suse.com Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck mwilck@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu petr.pavlu@suse.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek pmladek@suse.com [mcgrof: enhance commit log with testing and kmod test result interpretation ] Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/module.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -3654,7 +3654,8 @@ static bool finished_loading(const char sched_annotate_sleep(); mutex_lock(&module_mutex); mod = find_module_all(name, strlen(name), true); - ret = !mod || mod->state == MODULE_STATE_LIVE; + ret = !mod || mod->state == MODULE_STATE_LIVE + || mod->state == MODULE_STATE_GOING; mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
return ret; @@ -3820,20 +3821,35 @@ static int add_unformed_module(struct mo
mod->state = MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED;
-again: mutex_lock(&module_mutex); old = find_module_all(mod->name, strlen(mod->name), true); if (old != NULL) { - if (old->state != MODULE_STATE_LIVE) { + if (old->state == MODULE_STATE_COMING + || old->state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED) { /* Wait in case it fails to load. */ mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); err = wait_event_interruptible(module_wq, finished_loading(mod->name)); if (err) goto out_unlocked; - goto again; + + /* The module might have gone in the meantime. */ + mutex_lock(&module_mutex); + old = find_module_all(mod->name, strlen(mod->name), + true); } - err = -EEXIST; + + /* + * We are here only when the same module was being loaded. Do + * not try to load it again right now. It prevents long delays + * caused by serialized module load failures. It might happen + * when more devices of the same type trigger load of + * a particular module. + */ + if (old && old->state == MODULE_STATE_LIVE) + err = -EEXIST; + else + err = -EBUSY; goto out; } mod_update_bounds(mod);