linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] efi: Change down_interruptible() in virt_efi_reset_system() to down

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Date:   Tue, 5 Oct 2021 13:08:38 +0200
From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
To:     Zhang Jianhua <chris.zjh@...wei.com>
Cc:     linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] efi: Change down_interruptible() in
 virt_efi_reset_system() to down_trylock()

On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 04:51, Zhang Jianhua <chris.zjh@...wei.com> wrote:
>
> While reboot the system by sysrq, the following bug will be occur.
>
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/semaphore.c:90
> in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 10052, name: rc.shutdown
> CPU: 3 PID: 10052 Comm: rc.shutdown Tainted: G        W O      5.10.0 #1
> Call trace:
>  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1c8
>  show_stack+0x18/0x28
>  dump_stack+0xd0/0x110
>  ___might_sleep+0x14c/0x160
>  __might_sleep+0x74/0x88
>  down_interruptible+0x40/0x118
>  virt_efi_reset_system+0x3c/0xd0
>  efi_reboot+0xd4/0x11c
>  machine_restart+0x60/0x9c
>  emergency_restart+0x1c/0x2c
>  sysrq_handle_reboot+0x1c/0x2c
>  __handle_sysrq+0xd0/0x194
>  write_sysrq_trigger+0xbc/0xe4
>  proc_reg_write+0xd4/0xf0
>  vfs_write+0xa8/0x148
>  ksys_write+0x6c/0xd8
>  __arm64_sys_write+0x18/0x28
>  el0_svc_common.constprop.3+0xe4/0x16c
>  do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x2c
>  el0_svc+0x20/0x30
>  el0_sync_handler+0x80/0x17c
>  el0_sync+0x158/0x180
>
> The reason for this problem is that irq has been disabled in
> machine_restart() and then it calls down_interruptible() in
> virt_efi_reset_system(), which would occur sleep in irq context,
> it is dangerous! Commit 99409b935c9a("locking/semaphore: Add
> might_sleep() to down_*() family") add might_sleep() in
> down_interruptible(), so the bug info is here. down_trylock()
> can solve this problem, cause there is no might_sleep.
>
> --------
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Jianhua <chris.zjh@...wei.com>

Thanks. I will queue this up.


> ---
>  drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c
> index 1410beaef5c3..f3e54f6616f0 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c
> @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ static void virt_efi_reset_system(int reset_type,
>                                   unsigned long data_size,
>                                   efi_char16_t *data)
>  {
> -       if (down_interruptible(&efi_runtime_lock)) {
> +       if (down_trylock(&efi_runtime_lock)) {
>                 pr_warn("failed to invoke the reset_system() runtime service:\n"
>                         "could not get exclusive access to the firmware\n");
>                 return;
> --
> 2.31.0
>