crypto: algboss - don't wait during notifier callback
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 b7637754 ("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=207159Reported-by: Mike Gerow <gerow@google.com> Fixes: 39871037 ("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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