pstore: Convert buf_lock to semaphore

Instead of running with interrupts disabled, use a semaphore. This should
make it easier for backends that may need to sleep (e.g. EFI) when
performing a write:

|BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/sched/completion.c:99
|in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 2236, name: sig-xstate-bum
|Preemption disabled at:
|[<ffffffff99d60512>] pstore_dump+0x72/0x330
|CPU: 26 PID: 2236 Comm: sig-xstate-bum Tainted: G      D           4.20.0-rc3 #45
|Call Trace:
| dump_stack+0x4f/0x6a
| ___might_sleep.cold.91+0xd3/0xe4
| __might_sleep+0x50/0x90
| wait_for_completion+0x32/0x130
| virt_efi_query_variable_info+0x14e/0x160
| efi_query_variable_store+0x51/0x1a0
| efivar_entry_set_safe+0xa3/0x1b0
| efi_pstore_write+0x109/0x140
| pstore_dump+0x11c/0x330
| kmsg_dump+0xa4/0xd0
| oops_exit+0x22/0x30
...

Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 21b3ddd39f ("efi: Don't use spinlocks for efi vars")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
This commit is contained in:
Kees Cook
2018-11-30 14:36:58 -08:00
parent 69596433bc
commit ea84b580b9
6 changed files with 27 additions and 32 deletions

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@@ -563,8 +563,6 @@ static int nvram_pstore_init(void)
nvram_pstore_info.buf = oops_data;
nvram_pstore_info.bufsize = oops_data_sz;
spin_lock_init(&nvram_pstore_info.buf_lock);
rc = pstore_register(&nvram_pstore_info);
if (rc && (rc != -EPERM))
/* Print error only when pstore.backend == nvram */