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A potential deadlock was reported with the config file at https://web.archive.org/web/20240522052129/https://0x0.st/XPN_.txt In this particular configuration, the deadlock doesn't exist because the warning triggered at a point before modules were even available. However, the deadlock can be real because any module loaded would invoke async_synchronize_full. The issue is spurious for software crypto algorithms which aren't themselves involved in async probing. However, it would be hard to avoid for a PCI crypto driver using async probing. In this particular call trace, the problem is easily avoided because the only reason the module is being requested during probing is the add_early_randomness call in the hwrng core. This feature is vestigial since there is now a kernel thread dedicated to doing exactly this. So remove add_early_randomness as it is no longer needed. Reported-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@collabora.com> Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Fixes: 1b6d7f9eb150 ("tpm: add session encryption protection to tpm2_get_random()") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/119dc5ed-f159-41be-9dda-1a056f29888d@notapiano/ Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.