random: Fix early crash in credit_entropy_bits

From: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>

When printing out some early acpi messages I hit bug in work queue code. The system_wq is not initialized at the time acpi_early_init is called and causes irq storm that makes credit_entropy_bits call schedule_work and crash:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000102^M
  IP: [<ffffffff810bc282>] __queue_work+0x32/0x450^M
  PGD 0 ^M
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP^M
  ...
  Call Trace:^M
   <IRQ> [  286.521689]  [<ffffffff817b5dc6>] ? _raw_write_unlock_irqrestore+0x16/0x20^M
   [<ffffffff814f0f82>] ? add_interrupt_randomness+0x1c2/0x200^M
   [<ffffffff810bcc47>] queue_work_on+0x27/0x40^M
   [<ffffffff814f03a9>] credit_entropy_bits+0x219/0x280^M
   [<ffffffff814ee4f6>] ? __mix_pool_bytes+0x36/0x90^M
   [<ffffffff814f0f82>] add_interrupt_randomness+0x1c2/0x200^M
   [<ffffffff810fe570>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x40/0x80^M
   [<ffffffff810fe5dc>] handle_irq_event+0x2c/0x50^M
   [<ffffffff81101b93>] handle_level_irq+0x83/0x100^M
   [<ffffffff8102fdb3>] handle_irq+0x73/0x120^M
   [<ffffffff810a8fa1>] ? _local_bh_enable+0x21/0x50^M
   [<ffffffff817b8d2b>] do_IRQ+0x4b/0xd0^M
   [<ffffffff817b6bcc>] common_interrupt+0x8c/0x8c^M
   <EOI> [  286.521717]  [<ffffffff81062216>] ? native_restore_fl+0x6/0x10^M
   [<ffffffff810fbb4f>] console_unlock+0x3ef/0x5d0^M
   [<ffffffff8100dade>] ? update_sample+0x6e/0xe0^M
   [<ffffffff810fc55a>] vprintk_emit+0x2aa/0x520^M
   [<ffffffff810fc96f>] vprintk_default+0x1f/0x30^M
   [<ffffffff811a87b9>] printk+0x57/0x73^M
   [<ffffffff81447dda>] acpi_os_vprintf+0x3f/0x41^M
   [<ffffffff81447e2e>] acpi_os_printf+0x52/0x6e^M
   ...
   [<ffffffff81dbfc56>] acpi_load_tables+0x6c/0xf4^M
   [<ffffffff81dbe4a6>] acpi_early_init+0x7a/0xf0^M
   [<ffffffff81d73f39>] start_kernel+0x3be/0x472^M

Preventing this by checking the system_wq has been initialized already.

Signed-off-by Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/char/random.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

drivers/char/random.c +2 -1

index 3efb3bf0ab83..f4dec86c2e25 100644
@@ -725,7 +725,8 @@ retry:
 		/* If the input pool is getting full, send some
 		 * entropy to the blocking pool until it is 75% full.
 		 */
-		if (entropy_bits > random_write_wakeup_bits &&
+		if (keventd_up() &&
+		    entropy_bits > random_write_wakeup_bits &&
 		    r->initialized &&
 		    r->entropy_total >= 2*random_read_wakeup_bits) {
 			struct entropy_store *other = &blocking_pool;

Signature · 1 line

2.7.4

This was discussed and Linus wanted to fix it a different way. Please see this thread:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2525929

Cheers,