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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2013-05-24 15:55:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-05-24 16:22:52 -0700
commit10b3a32d292c21ea5b3ad5ca5975e88bb20b8d68 (patch)
tree773d7546880a333ccdabf72a2480a9e9aabe112e /drivers/char
parent1e7e2e05c179a68aaf8830fe91547a87f4589e53 (diff)
random: fix accounting race condition with lockless irq entropy_count update
Commit 902c098a3663 ("random: use lockless techniques in the interrupt path") turned IRQ path from being spinlock protected into lockless cmpxchg-retry update. That commit removed r->lock serialization between crediting entropy bits from IRQ context and accounting when extracting entropy on userspace read path, but didn't turn the r->entropy_count reads/updates in account() to use cmpxchg as well. It has been observed, that under certain circumstances this leads to read() on /dev/urandom to return 0 (EOF), as r->entropy_count gets corrupted and becomes negative, which in turn results in propagating 0 all the way from account() to the actual read() call. Convert the accounting code to be the proper lockless counterpart of what has been partially done by 902c098a3663. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c24
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 73e52b7796f..35487e8ded5 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -865,16 +865,24 @@ static size_t account(struct entropy_store *r, size_t nbytes, int min,
if (r->entropy_count / 8 < min + reserved) {
nbytes = 0;
} else {
+ int entropy_count, orig;
+retry:
+ entropy_count = orig = ACCESS_ONCE(r->entropy_count);
/* If limited, never pull more than available */
- if (r->limit && nbytes + reserved >= r->entropy_count / 8)
- nbytes = r->entropy_count/8 - reserved;
-
- if (r->entropy_count / 8 >= nbytes + reserved)
- r->entropy_count -= nbytes*8;
- else
- r->entropy_count = reserved;
+ if (r->limit && nbytes + reserved >= entropy_count / 8)
+ nbytes = entropy_count/8 - reserved;
+
+ if (entropy_count / 8 >= nbytes + reserved) {
+ entropy_count -= nbytes*8;
+ if (cmpxchg(&r->entropy_count, orig, entropy_count) != orig)
+ goto retry;
+ } else {
+ entropy_count = reserved;
+ if (cmpxchg(&r->entropy_count, orig, entropy_count) != orig)
+ goto retry;
+ }
- if (r->entropy_count < random_write_wakeup_thresh)
+ if (entropy_count < random_write_wakeup_thresh)
wakeup_write = 1;
}