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Message-ID: <14009987.cibGRJrWdm@positron.chronox.de>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 21:54:07 +0200
From: Stephan Müller <smueller@...onox.de>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cryptomgr_test / drbg_ctr: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
Am Freitag, 18. Mai 2018, 10:36:04 CEST schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
Hi Geert,
>
> I tried following the code path, but couldn't find where it went wrong.
>
> mutex_lock(&drbg->drbg_mutex) is called from drbg_instantiate(), which is
> inlined by the compiler into drbg_kcapi_seed().
>
> Do you have a clue?
It is the first time I hear from such an issue. Yes, the DRBG should not be
called in atomic context. But I do not see where we have an atomic context
(either a spin_lock or in an interrupt handler) when we are executing the test
manager.
I will keep looking.
Ciao
Stephan
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