linux-kernel - [PATCH] module: statically initialize init section freeing data

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Date:   Thu,  8 Oct 2020 13:32:20 -0400
From:   Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
To:     Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>
Cc:     Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] module: statically initialize init section freeing data

Corentin hit the following workqueue warning when running with
CRYPTO_MANAGER_EXTRA_TESTS:

  WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 147 at kernel/workqueue.c:1473 __queue_work+0x3b8/0x3d0
  Modules linked in: ghash_generic
  CPU: 2 PID: 147 Comm: modprobe Not tainted
      5.6.0-rc1-next-20200214-00068-g166c9264f0b1-dirty #545
  Hardware name: Pine H64 model A (DT)
  pc : __queue_work+0x3b8/0x3d0
  Call trace:
   __queue_work+0x3b8/0x3d0
   queue_work_on+0x6c/0x90
   do_init_module+0x188/0x1f0
   load_module+0x1d00/0x22b0

I wasn't able to reproduce on x86 or rpi 3b+.

This is

  WARN_ON(!list_empty(&work->entry))

from __queue_work(), and it happens because the init_free_wq work item
isn't initialized in time for a crypto test that requests the gcm
module.  Some crypto tests were recently moved earlier in boot as
explained in commit c4741b230597 ("crypto: run initcalls for generic
implementations earlier"), which went into mainline less than two weeks
before the Fixes commit.

Avoid the warning by statically initializing init_free_wq and the
corresponding llist.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200217204803.GA13479@Red/
Fixes: 1a7b7d922081 ("modules: Use vmalloc special flag")
Reported-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
Tested-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
Tested-on: sun50i-h6-pine-h64
Tested-on: imx8mn-ddr4-evk
Tested-on: sun50i-a64-bananapi-m64
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
---
 kernel/module.c | 13 +++----------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 1c5cff34d9f2..8486123ffd7a 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -91,8 +91,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(module_mutex);
 static LIST_HEAD(modules);
 
 /* Work queue for freeing init sections in success case */
-static struct work_struct init_free_wq;
-static struct llist_head init_free_list;
+static void do_free_init(struct work_struct *w);
+static DECLARE_WORK(init_free_wq, do_free_init);
+static LLIST_HEAD(init_free_list);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
 
@@ -3579,14 +3580,6 @@ static void do_free_init(struct work_struct *w)
 	}
 }
 
-static int __init modules_wq_init(void)
-{
-	INIT_WORK(&init_free_wq, do_free_init);
-	init_llist_head(&init_free_list);
-	return 0;
-}
-module_init(modules_wq_init);
-
 /*
  * This is where the real work happens.
  *

base-commit: c85fb28b6f999db9928b841f63f1beeb3074eeca
-- 
2.28.0