linux-mm.kvack.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	 Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
	 Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/kfence: select random number before taking raw lock
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2022 14:31:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdXocvPDViVHjEfeWGxA+7SwOrD3pP7v8wFM80Us3xSU4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220609121709.12939-1-Jason@zx2c4.com>

Hi Jason,

On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 2:17 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
> The RNG uses vanilla spinlocks, not raw spinlocks, so kfence should pick
> its random numbers before taking its raw spinlocks. This also has the
> nice effect of doing less work inside the lock. It should fix a splat
> that Geert saw with CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING:
>
>      dump_backtrace.part.0+0x98/0xc0
>      show_stack+0x14/0x28
>      dump_stack_lvl+0xac/0xec
>      dump_stack+0x14/0x2c
>      __lock_acquire+0x388/0x10a0
>      lock_acquire+0x190/0x2c0
>      _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x6c/0x94
>      crng_make_state+0x148/0x1e4
>      _get_random_bytes.part.0+0x4c/0xe8
>      get_random_u32+0x4c/0x140
>      __kfence_alloc+0x460/0x5c4
>      kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x194/0x1dc
>      __kthread_create_on_node+0x5c/0x1a8
>      kthread_create_on_node+0x58/0x7c
>      printk_start_kthread.part.0+0x34/0xa8
>      printk_activate_kthreads+0x4c/0x54
>      do_one_initcall+0xec/0x278
>      kernel_init_freeable+0x11c/0x214
>      kernel_init+0x24/0x124
>      ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
>
> Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

Thank you, the splat is gone.

Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-09 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-09 12:17 Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-06-09 12:27 ` Marco Elver
2022-06-09 12:29   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-06-09 12:33     ` [PATCH v2] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-06-09 12:41       ` Marco Elver
2022-06-09 12:52       ` Petr Mladek
2022-06-09 12:31 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CAMuHMdXocvPDViVHjEfeWGxA+7SwOrD3pP7v8wFM80Us3xSU4Q@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=geert@linux-m68k.org \
    --cc=Jason@zx2c4.com \
    --cc=dvyukov@google.com \
    --cc=elver@google.com \
    --cc=glider@google.com \
    --cc=john.ogness@linutronix.de \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox