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When a crypto template needs to be instantiated, CRYPTO_MSG_ALG_REQUEST
is sent to crypto_chain. cryptomgr_schedule_probe() handles this by
starting a thread to instantiate the template, then waiting for this
thread to complete via crypto_larval::completion.
This can deadlock because instantiating the template may require loading
modules, and this (apparently depending on userspace) may need to wait
for the crc-t10dif module (lib/crc-t10dif.c) to be loaded. But
crc-t10dif's module_init function uses crypto_register_notifier() and
therefore takes crypto_chain.rwsem for write. That can't proceed until
the notifier callback has finished, as it holds this semaphore for read.
Fix this by removing the wait on crypto_larval::completion from within
cryptomgr_schedule_probe(). It's actually unnecessary because
crypto_alg_mod_lookup() calls crypto_larval_wait() itself after sending
CRYPTO_MSG_ALG_REQUEST.
This only actually became a problem in v4.20 due to commit b76377543b73
("crc-t10dif: Pick better transform if one becomes available"), but the
unnecessary wait was much older.
BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207159
Reported-by: Mike Gerow <gerow@google.com>
Fixes: 398710379f51 ("crypto: algapi - Move larval completion into algboss")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.6+
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reported-by: Kai Lüke <kai@kinvolk.io>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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