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<title>padata: always acquire cpu_hotplug_lock before pinst-&gt;lock</title>
<updated>2020-04-13T08:34:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Jordan</name>
<email>daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-03T19:31:11+00:00</published>
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commit 38228e8848cd7dd86ccb90406af32de0cad24be3 upstream.

lockdep complains when padata's paths to update cpumasks via CPU hotplug
and sysfs are both taken:

  # echo 0 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
  # echo ff &gt; /sys/kernel/pcrypt/pencrypt/parallel_cpumask

  ======================================================
  WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
  5.4.0-rc8-padata-cpuhp-v3+ #1 Not tainted
  ------------------------------------------------------
  bash/205 is trying to acquire lock:
  ffffffff8286bcd0 (cpu_hotplug_lock.rw_sem){++++}, at: padata_set_cpumask+0x2b/0x120

  but task is already holding lock:
  ffff8880001abfa0 (&amp;pinst-&gt;lock){+.+.}, at: padata_set_cpumask+0x26/0x120

  which lock already depends on the new lock.

padata doesn't take cpu_hotplug_lock and pinst-&gt;lock in a consistent
order.  Which should be first?  CPU hotplug calls into padata with
cpu_hotplug_lock already held, so it should have priority.

Fixes: 6751fb3c0e0c ("padata: Use get_online_cpus/put_online_cpus")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan &lt;daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 38228e8848cd7dd86ccb90406af32de0cad24be3 upstream.

lockdep complains when padata's paths to update cpumasks via CPU hotplug
and sysfs are both taken:

  # echo 0 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
  # echo ff &gt; /sys/kernel/pcrypt/pencrypt/parallel_cpumask

  ======================================================
  WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
  5.4.0-rc8-padata-cpuhp-v3+ #1 Not tainted
  ------------------------------------------------------
  bash/205 is trying to acquire lock:
  ffffffff8286bcd0 (cpu_hotplug_lock.rw_sem){++++}, at: padata_set_cpumask+0x2b/0x120

  but task is already holding lock:
  ffff8880001abfa0 (&amp;pinst-&gt;lock){+.+.}, at: padata_set_cpumask+0x26/0x120

  which lock already depends on the new lock.

padata doesn't take cpu_hotplug_lock and pinst-&gt;lock in a consistent
order.  Which should be first?  CPU hotplug calls into padata with
cpu_hotplug_lock already held, so it should have priority.

Fixes: 6751fb3c0e0c ("padata: Use get_online_cpus/put_online_cpus")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan &lt;daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>padata: Remove broken queue flushing</title>
<updated>2020-02-28T15:35:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-19T05:17:31+00:00</published>
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commit 07928d9bfc81640bab36f5190e8725894d93b659 upstream.

The function padata_flush_queues is fundamentally broken because
it cannot force padata users to complete the request that is
underway.  IOW padata has to passively wait for the completion
of any outstanding work.

As it stands flushing is used in two places.  Its use in padata_stop
is simply unnecessary because nothing depends on the queues to
be flushed afterwards.

The other use in padata_replace is more substantial as we depend
on it to free the old pd structure.  This patch instead uses the
pd-&gt;refcnt to dynamically free the pd structure once all requests
are complete.

Fixes: 2b73b07ab8a4 ("padata: Flush the padata queues actively")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan &lt;daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
[dj: leave "pd-&gt;pinst = pinst" assignment in padata_alloc_pd()]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan &lt;daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 07928d9bfc81640bab36f5190e8725894d93b659 upstream.

The function padata_flush_queues is fundamentally broken because
it cannot force padata users to complete the request that is
underway.  IOW padata has to passively wait for the completion
of any outstanding work.

As it stands flushing is used in two places.  Its use in padata_stop
is simply unnecessary because nothing depends on the queues to
be flushed afterwards.

The other use in padata_replace is more substantial as we depend
on it to free the old pd structure.  This patch instead uses the
pd-&gt;refcnt to dynamically free the pd structure once all requests
are complete.

Fixes: 2b73b07ab8a4 ("padata: Flush the padata queues actively")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan &lt;daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
[dj: leave "pd-&gt;pinst = pinst" assignment in padata_alloc_pd()]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan &lt;daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>padata: use smp_mb in padata_reorder to avoid orphaned padata jobs</title>
<updated>2019-07-31T05:28:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Jordan</name>
<email>daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T16:32:53+00:00</published>
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commit cf144f81a99d1a3928f90b0936accfd3f45c9a0a upstream.

Testing padata with the tcrypt module on a 5.2 kernel...

    # modprobe tcrypt alg="pcrypt(rfc4106(gcm(aes)))" type=3
    # modprobe tcrypt mode=211 sec=1

...produces this splat:

    INFO: task modprobe:10075 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
          Not tainted 5.2.0-base+ #16
    modprobe        D    0 10075  10064 0x80004080
    Call Trace:
     ? __schedule+0x4dd/0x610
     ? ring_buffer_unlock_commit+0x23/0x100
     schedule+0x6c/0x90
     schedule_timeout+0x3b/0x320
     ? trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs+0x4f/0x1f0
     wait_for_common+0x160/0x1a0
     ? wake_up_q+0x80/0x80
     { crypto_wait_req }             # entries in braces added by hand
     { do_one_aead_op }
     { test_aead_jiffies }
     test_aead_speed.constprop.17+0x681/0xf30 [tcrypt]
     do_test+0x4053/0x6a2b [tcrypt]
     ? 0xffffffffa00f4000
     tcrypt_mod_init+0x50/0x1000 [tcrypt]
     ...

The second modprobe command never finishes because in padata_reorder,
CPU0's load of reorder_objects is executed before the unlocking store in
spin_unlock_bh(pd-&gt;lock), causing CPU0 to miss CPU1's increment:

CPU0                                 CPU1

padata_reorder                       padata_do_serial
  LOAD reorder_objects  // 0
                                       INC reorder_objects  // 1
                                       padata_reorder
                                         TRYLOCK pd-&gt;lock   // failed
  UNLOCK pd-&gt;lock

CPU0 deletes the timer before returning from padata_reorder and since no
other job is submitted to padata, modprobe waits indefinitely.

Add a pair of full barriers to guarantee proper ordering:

CPU0                                 CPU1

padata_reorder                       padata_do_serial
  UNLOCK pd-&gt;lock
  smp_mb()
  LOAD reorder_objects
                                       INC reorder_objects
                                       smp_mb__after_atomic()
                                       padata_reorder
                                         TRYLOCK pd-&gt;lock

smp_mb__after_atomic is needed so the read part of the trylock operation
comes after the INC, as Andrea points out.   Thanks also to Andrea for
help with writing a litmus test.

Fixes: 16295bec6398 ("padata: Generic parallelization/serialization interface")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan &lt;daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Parri &lt;andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit cf144f81a99d1a3928f90b0936accfd3f45c9a0a upstream.

Testing padata with the tcrypt module on a 5.2 kernel...

    # modprobe tcrypt alg="pcrypt(rfc4106(gcm(aes)))" type=3
    # modprobe tcrypt mode=211 sec=1

...produces this splat:

    INFO: task modprobe:10075 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
          Not tainted 5.2.0-base+ #16
    modprobe        D    0 10075  10064 0x80004080
    Call Trace:
     ? __schedule+0x4dd/0x610
     ? ring_buffer_unlock_commit+0x23/0x100
     schedule+0x6c/0x90
     schedule_timeout+0x3b/0x320
     ? trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs+0x4f/0x1f0
     wait_for_common+0x160/0x1a0
     ? wake_up_q+0x80/0x80
     { crypto_wait_req }             # entries in braces added by hand
     { do_one_aead_op }
     { test_aead_jiffies }
     test_aead_speed.constprop.17+0x681/0xf30 [tcrypt]
     do_test+0x4053/0x6a2b [tcrypt]
     ? 0xffffffffa00f4000
     tcrypt_mod_init+0x50/0x1000 [tcrypt]
     ...

The second modprobe command never finishes because in padata_reorder,
CPU0's load of reorder_objects is executed before the unlocking store in
spin_unlock_bh(pd-&gt;lock), causing CPU0 to miss CPU1's increment:

CPU0                                 CPU1

padata_reorder                       padata_do_serial
  LOAD reorder_objects  // 0
                                       INC reorder_objects  // 1
                                       padata_reorder
                                         TRYLOCK pd-&gt;lock   // failed
  UNLOCK pd-&gt;lock

CPU0 deletes the timer before returning from padata_reorder and since no
other job is submitted to padata, modprobe waits indefinitely.

Add a pair of full barriers to guarantee proper ordering:

CPU0                                 CPU1

padata_reorder                       padata_do_serial
  UNLOCK pd-&gt;lock
  smp_mb()
  LOAD reorder_objects
                                       INC reorder_objects
                                       smp_mb__after_atomic()
                                       padata_reorder
                                         TRYLOCK pd-&gt;lock

smp_mb__after_atomic is needed so the read part of the trylock operation
comes after the INC, as Andrea points out.   Thanks also to Andrea for
help with writing a litmus test.

Fixes: 16295bec6398 ("padata: Generic parallelization/serialization interface")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan &lt;daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Parri &lt;andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>padata: Avoid nested calls to cpus_read_lock() in pcrypt_init_padata()</title>
<updated>2017-05-26T08:10:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-24T08:15:18+00:00</published>
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pcrypt_init_padata()
   cpus_read_lock()
   padata_alloc_possible()
     padata_alloc()
       cpus_read_lock()

The nested call to cpus_read_lock() works with the current implementation,
but prevents the conversion to a percpu rwsem.

The other caller of padata_alloc_possible() is pcrypt_init_padata() which
calls from a cpus_read_lock() protected region as well.

Remove the cpus_read_lock() call in padata_alloc() and document the
calling convention.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081547.571278910@linutronix.de

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pcrypt_init_padata()
   cpus_read_lock()
   padata_alloc_possible()
     padata_alloc()
       cpus_read_lock()

The nested call to cpus_read_lock() works with the current implementation,
but prevents the conversion to a percpu rwsem.

The other caller of padata_alloc_possible() is pcrypt_init_padata() which
calls from a cpus_read_lock() protected region as well.

Remove the cpus_read_lock() call in padata_alloc() and document the
calling convention.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081547.571278910@linutronix.de

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>padata: Make padata_alloc() static</title>
<updated>2017-05-26T08:10:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-24T08:15:17+00:00</published>
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No users outside of padata.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081547.491457256@linutronix.de

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No users outside of padata.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081547.491457256@linutronix.de

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>padata: get_next is never NULL</title>
<updated>2017-04-21T12:30:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-12T08:40:19+00:00</published>
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Per Dan's static checker warning, the code that returns NULL was removed
in 2010, so this patch updates the comments and fixes the code
assumptions.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Per Dan's static checker warning, the code that returns NULL was removed
in 2010, so this patch updates the comments and fixes the code
assumptions.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>padata: free correct variable</title>
<updated>2017-04-10T11:17:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-07T00:33:30+00:00</published>
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The author meant to free the variable that was just allocated, instead
of the one that failed to be allocated, but made a simple typo. This
patch rectifies that.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<pre>
The author meant to free the variable that was just allocated, instead
of the one that failed to be allocated, but made a simple typo. This
patch rectifies that.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>padata: avoid race in reordering</title>
<updated>2017-03-24T13:51:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-23T11:24:43+00:00</published>
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Under extremely heavy uses of padata, crashes occur, and with list
debugging turned on, this happens instead:

[87487.298728] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 882 at lib/list_debug.c:33
__list_add+0xae/0x130
[87487.301868] list_add corruption. prev-&gt;next should be next
(ffffb17abfc043d0), but was ffff8dba70872c80. (prev=ffff8dba70872b00).
[87487.339011]  [&lt;ffffffff9a53d075&gt;] dump_stack+0x68/0xa3
[87487.342198]  [&lt;ffffffff99e119a1&gt;] ? console_unlock+0x281/0x6d0
[87487.345364]  [&lt;ffffffff99d6b91f&gt;] __warn+0xff/0x140
[87487.348513]  [&lt;ffffffff99d6b9aa&gt;] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4a/0x50
[87487.351659]  [&lt;ffffffff9a58b5de&gt;] __list_add+0xae/0x130
[87487.354772]  [&lt;ffffffff9add5094&gt;] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x64/0x70
[87487.357915]  [&lt;ffffffff99eefd66&gt;] padata_reorder+0x1e6/0x420
[87487.361084]  [&lt;ffffffff99ef0055&gt;] padata_do_serial+0xa5/0x120

padata_reorder calls list_add_tail with the list to which its adding
locked, which seems correct:

spin_lock(&amp;squeue-&gt;serial.lock);
list_add_tail(&amp;padata-&gt;list, &amp;squeue-&gt;serial.list);
spin_unlock(&amp;squeue-&gt;serial.lock);

This therefore leaves only place where such inconsistency could occur:
if padata-&gt;list is added at the same time on two different threads.
This pdata pointer comes from the function call to
padata_get_next(pd), which has in it the following block:

next_queue = per_cpu_ptr(pd-&gt;pqueue, cpu);
padata = NULL;
reorder = &amp;next_queue-&gt;reorder;
if (!list_empty(&amp;reorder-&gt;list)) {
       padata = list_entry(reorder-&gt;list.next,
                           struct padata_priv, list);
       spin_lock(&amp;reorder-&gt;lock);
       list_del_init(&amp;padata-&gt;list);
       atomic_dec(&amp;pd-&gt;reorder_objects);
       spin_unlock(&amp;reorder-&gt;lock);

       pd-&gt;processed++;

       goto out;
}
out:
return padata;

I strongly suspect that the problem here is that two threads can race
on reorder list. Even though the deletion is locked, call to
list_entry is not locked, which means it's feasible that two threads
pick up the same padata object and subsequently call list_add_tail on
them at the same time. The fix is thus be hoist that lock outside of
that block.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Under extremely heavy uses of padata, crashes occur, and with list
debugging turned on, this happens instead:

[87487.298728] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 882 at lib/list_debug.c:33
__list_add+0xae/0x130
[87487.301868] list_add corruption. prev-&gt;next should be next
(ffffb17abfc043d0), but was ffff8dba70872c80. (prev=ffff8dba70872b00).
[87487.339011]  [&lt;ffffffff9a53d075&gt;] dump_stack+0x68/0xa3
[87487.342198]  [&lt;ffffffff99e119a1&gt;] ? console_unlock+0x281/0x6d0
[87487.345364]  [&lt;ffffffff99d6b91f&gt;] __warn+0xff/0x140
[87487.348513]  [&lt;ffffffff99d6b9aa&gt;] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4a/0x50
[87487.351659]  [&lt;ffffffff9a58b5de&gt;] __list_add+0xae/0x130
[87487.354772]  [&lt;ffffffff9add5094&gt;] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x64/0x70
[87487.357915]  [&lt;ffffffff99eefd66&gt;] padata_reorder+0x1e6/0x420
[87487.361084]  [&lt;ffffffff99ef0055&gt;] padata_do_serial+0xa5/0x120

padata_reorder calls list_add_tail with the list to which its adding
locked, which seems correct:

spin_lock(&amp;squeue-&gt;serial.lock);
list_add_tail(&amp;padata-&gt;list, &amp;squeue-&gt;serial.list);
spin_unlock(&amp;squeue-&gt;serial.lock);

This therefore leaves only place where such inconsistency could occur:
if padata-&gt;list is added at the same time on two different threads.
This pdata pointer comes from the function call to
padata_get_next(pd), which has in it the following block:

next_queue = per_cpu_ptr(pd-&gt;pqueue, cpu);
padata = NULL;
reorder = &amp;next_queue-&gt;reorder;
if (!list_empty(&amp;reorder-&gt;list)) {
       padata = list_entry(reorder-&gt;list.next,
                           struct padata_priv, list);
       spin_lock(&amp;reorder-&gt;lock);
       list_del_init(&amp;padata-&gt;list);
       atomic_dec(&amp;pd-&gt;reorder_objects);
       spin_unlock(&amp;reorder-&gt;lock);

       pd-&gt;processed++;

       goto out;
}
out:
return padata;

I strongly suspect that the problem here is that two threads can race
on reorder list. Even though the deletion is locked, call to
list_entry is not locked, which means it's feasible that two threads
pick up the same padata object and subsequently call list_add_tail on
them at the same time. The fix is thus be hoist that lock outside of
that block.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<title>padata: Remove unused but set variables</title>
<updated>2016-10-25T03:08:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tobias Klauser</name>
<email>tklauser@distanz.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-17T10:16:08+00:00</published>
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Remove the unused but set variable pinst in padata_parallel_worker to
fix the following warning when building with 'W=1':

  kernel/padata.c: In function ‘padata_parallel_worker’:
  kernel/padata.c:68:26: warning: variable ‘pinst’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

Also remove the now unused variable pd which is only used to set pinst.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Remove the unused but set variable pinst in padata_parallel_worker to
fix the following warning when building with 'W=1':

  kernel/padata.c: In function ‘padata_parallel_worker’:
  kernel/padata.c:68:26: warning: variable ‘pinst’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

Also remove the now unused variable pd which is only used to set pinst.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>padata: Convert to hotplug state machine</title>
<updated>2016-09-19T19:44:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-06T17:04:49+00:00</published>
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Install the callbacks via the state machine. CPU-hotplug multinstance support
is used with the nocalls() version. Maybe parts of padata_alloc() could be
moved into the online callback so that we could invoke -&gt;startup callback for
instance and drop get_online_cpus().

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160906170457.32393-14-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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Install the callbacks via the state machine. CPU-hotplug multinstance support
is used with the nocalls() version. Maybe parts of padata_alloc() could be
moved into the online callback so that we could invoke -&gt;startup callback for
instance and drop get_online_cpus().

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160906170457.32393-14-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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