linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: mxs-dcp - Fix wait logic on chan threads

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Date:   Fri, 28 Sep 2018 13:10:08 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@....com>
Cc:     Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller " <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>,
        Franck LENORMAND <franck.lenormand@....com>,
        Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-imx@....com, kernel@...gutronix.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: mxs-dcp - Fix wait logic on chan threads

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 06:03:18PM +0300, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> When compiling with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y the mxs-dcp driver
> prints warnings such as:
> 
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 120 at kernel/sched/core.c:7736 __might_sleep+0x98/0x9c
> do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=1 set at [<8081978c>] dcp_chan_thread_sha+0x3c/0x2ec
> 
> The problem is that blocking ops will manipulate current->state
> themselves so it is not allowed to call them between
> set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) and schedule().
> 
> Fix this by converting the per-chan mutex to a spinlock (it only
> protects tiny list ops anyway) and rearranging the wait logic so that
> callbacks are called current->state as TASK_RUNNING. Those callbacks
> will indeed call blocking ops themselves so this is required.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@....com>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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