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The entropy accounting changes a static key when the RNG has initialized, since it only ever initializes once. Static key changes, however, cannot be made from atomic context, so depending on where the last creditable entropy comes from, the static key change might need to be deferred to a worker. Previously the code used the execute_in_process_context() helper function, which accounts for whether or not the caller is in_interrupt(). However, that doesn't account for the case where the caller is actually in process context but is holding a spinlock. This turned out to be the case with input_handle_event() in drivers/input/input.c contributing entropy: [<ffffffd613025ba0>] die+0xa8/0x2fc [<ffffffd613027428>] bug_handler+0x44/0xec [<ffffffd613016964>] brk_handler+0x90/0x144 [<ffffffd613041e58>] do_debug_exception+0xa0/0x148 [<ffffffd61400c208>] el1_dbg+0x60/0x7c [<ffffffd61400c000>] el1h_64_sync_handler+0x38/0x90 [<ffffffd613011294>] el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x6c [<ffffffd613102d88>] __might_resched+0x1fc/0x2e8 [<ffffffd613102b54>] __might_sleep+0x44/0x7c [<ffffffd6130b6eac>] cpus_read_lock+0x1c/0xec [<ffffffd6132c2820>] static_key_enable+0x14/0x38 [<ffffffd61400ac08>] crng_set_ready+0x14/0x28 [<ffffffd6130df4dc>] execute_in_process_context+0xb8/0xf8 [<ffffffd61400ab30>] _credit_init_bits+0x118/0x1dc [<ffffffd6138580c8>] add_timer_randomness+0x264/0x270 [<ffffffd613857e54>] add_input_randomness+0x38/0x48 [<ffffffd613a80f94>] input_handle_event+0x2b8/0x490 [<ffffffd613a81310>] input_event+0x6c/0x98 According to Guoyong, it's not really possible to refactor the various drivers to never hold a spinlock there. And in_atomic() isn't reliable. So, rather than trying to be too fancy, just punt the change in the static key to a workqueue always. There's basically no drawback of doing this, as the code already needed to account for the static key not changing immediately, and given that it's just an optimization, there's not exactly a hurry to change the static key right away, so deferal is fine. Reported-by: Guoyong Wang <guoyong.wang@mediatek.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: f5bda35fba61 ("random: use static branch for crng_ready()") Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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