3.16.76-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Daniel Jordan daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com
commit cf144f81a99d1a3928f90b0936accfd3f45c9a0a upstream.
Testing padata with the tcrypt module on a 5.2 kernel...
# modprobe tcrypt alg="pcrypt(rfc4106(gcm(aes)))" type=3 # modprobe tcrypt mode=211 sec=1
...produces this splat:
INFO: task modprobe:10075 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Not tainted 5.2.0-base+ #16 modprobe D 0 10075 10064 0x80004080 Call Trace: ? __schedule+0x4dd/0x610 ? ring_buffer_unlock_commit+0x23/0x100 schedule+0x6c/0x90 schedule_timeout+0x3b/0x320 ? trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs+0x4f/0x1f0 wait_for_common+0x160/0x1a0 ? wake_up_q+0x80/0x80 { crypto_wait_req } # entries in braces added by hand { do_one_aead_op } { test_aead_jiffies } test_aead_speed.constprop.17+0x681/0xf30 [tcrypt] do_test+0x4053/0x6a2b [tcrypt] ? 0xffffffffa00f4000 tcrypt_mod_init+0x50/0x1000 [tcrypt] ...
The second modprobe command never finishes because in padata_reorder, CPU0's load of reorder_objects is executed before the unlocking store in spin_unlock_bh(pd->lock), causing CPU0 to miss CPU1's increment:
CPU0 CPU1
padata_reorder padata_do_serial LOAD reorder_objects // 0 INC reorder_objects // 1 padata_reorder TRYLOCK pd->lock // failed UNLOCK pd->lock
CPU0 deletes the timer before returning from padata_reorder and since no other job is submitted to padata, modprobe waits indefinitely.
Add a pair of full barriers to guarantee proper ordering:
CPU0 CPU1
padata_reorder padata_do_serial UNLOCK pd->lock smp_mb() LOAD reorder_objects INC reorder_objects smp_mb__after_atomic() padata_reorder TRYLOCK pd->lock
smp_mb__after_atomic is needed so the read part of the trylock operation comes after the INC, as Andrea points out. Thanks also to Andrea for help with writing a litmus test.
Fixes: 16295bec6398 ("padata: Generic parallelization/serialization interface") Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com Cc: Andrea Parri andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com Cc: Boqun Feng boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Cc: Paul E. McKenney paulmck@linux.ibm.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Steffen Klassert steffen.klassert@secunet.com Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk --- kernel/padata.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/padata.c +++ b/kernel/padata.c @@ -272,7 +272,12 @@ static void padata_reorder(struct parall * The next object that needs serialization might have arrived to * the reorder queues in the meantime, we will be called again * from the timer function if no one else cares for it. + * + * Ensure reorder_objects is read after pd->lock is dropped so we see + * an increment from another task in padata_do_serial. Pairs with + * smp_mb__after_atomic in padata_do_serial. */ + smp_mb(); if (atomic_read(&pd->reorder_objects) && !(pinst->flags & PADATA_RESET)) mod_timer(&pd->timer, jiffies + HZ); @@ -341,6 +346,13 @@ void padata_do_serial(struct padata_priv list_add_tail(&padata->list, &pqueue->reorder.list); spin_unlock(&pqueue->reorder.lock);
+ /* + * Ensure the atomic_inc of reorder_objects above is ordered correctly + * with the trylock of pd->lock in padata_reorder. Pairs with smp_mb + * in padata_reorder. + */ + smp_mb__after_atomic(); + put_cpu();
padata_reorder(pd);