From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 04:10:47 +0000 (+0800) Subject: crypto: ansi_prng - alloc cipher just in init X-Git-Tag: v2.6.32-rc1~731^2~88 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fd09d7facb7cf3a884979eb5f843338ce1ce9b43;p=pandora-kernel.git crypto: ansi_prng - alloc cipher just in init As reported by Eric Sesterhenn the re-allocation of the cipher in reset leads to: |BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rwsem.c:21 |in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 4926, name: modprobe |INFO: lockdep is turned off. |Pid: 4926, comm: modprobe Tainted: G M 2.6.31-rc1-22297-g5298976 #24 |Call Trace: | [] __might_sleep+0xf9/0x101 | [] down_read+0x16/0x68 | [] crypto_alg_lookup+0x16/0x34 | [] crypto_larval_lookup+0x30/0xf9 | [] crypto_alg_mod_lookup+0x1d/0x62 | [] crypto_alloc_base+0x1e/0x64 | [] reset_prng_context+0xab/0x13f | [] ? __spin_lock_init+0x27/0x51 | [] cprng_init+0x2a/0x42 | [] __crypto_alloc_tfm+0xfa/0x128 | [] crypto_alloc_base+0x33/0x64 | [] alg_test_cprng+0x30/0x1f4 | [] alg_test+0x12f/0x19f | [] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x14d/0x481 | [] do_test+0xf9d/0x163f [tcrypt] | [] do_test+0x3a1/0x163f [tcrypt] | [] tcrypt_mod_init+0x35/0x7c [tcrypt] | [] _stext+0x54/0x12c | [] ? tcrypt_mod_init+0x0/0x7c [tcrypt] | [] ? up_read+0x16/0x2b | [] ? __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x40/0x4c | [] sys_init_module+0xa9/0x1bf | [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x32 because a spin lock is held and crypto_alloc_base() may sleep. There is no reason to re-allocate the cipher, the state is resetted in ->setkey(). This patches makes the cipher allocation a one time thing and moves it to init. Reported-by: Eric Sesterhenn Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Acked-by: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu --- Reading git-diff-tree failed