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padata: Always leave BHs disabled when running ->parallel()
authorDaniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:28:02 +0000 (20:28 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:26:20 +0000 (13:26 +0100)
commit7337adb20fcc0aebb50eaff2bc5a8dd9a7c6743d
tree20ff7ec7a65effbd9e58c6941e23a53ef329b4f3
parent4751b1064239e37371ba87c50dc1439d45d79ef6
padata: Always leave BHs disabled when running ->parallel()

[ Upstream commit 34c3a47d20ae55b3600fed733bf96eafe9c500d5 ]

A deadlock can happen when an overloaded system runs ->parallel() in the
context of the current task:

    padata_do_parallel
      ->parallel()
        pcrypt_aead_enc/dec
          padata_do_serial
            spin_lock(&reorder->lock) // BHs still enabled
              <interrupt>
                ...
                  __do_softirq
                    ...
                      padata_do_serial
                        spin_lock(&reorder->lock)

It's a bug for BHs to be on in _do_serial as Steffen points out, so
ensure they're off in the "current task" case like they are in
padata_parallel_worker to avoid this situation.

Reported-by: syzbot+bc05445bc14148d51915@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 4611ce224688 ("padata: allocate work structures for parallel jobs from a pool")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/padata.c