pstore_dump() is *always* invoked in atomic context (nowadays in an RCU
read-side critical section, before that under a spinlock).
It doesn't make sense to try to use semaphores here.
This is mostly a revert of commit ea84b580b9 ("pstore: Convert buf_lock
to semaphore"), except that two parts aren't restored back exactly as they
were:
- keep the lock initialization in pstore_register
- in efi_pstore_write(), always set the "block" flag to false
- omit "is_locked", that was unnecessary since
commit 959217c84c ("pstore: Actually give up during locking failure")
- fix the bailout message
The actual problem that the buggy commit was trying to address may have
been that the use of preemptible() in efi_pstore_write() was wrong - it
only looks at preempt_count() and the state of IRQs, but __rcu_read_lock()
doesn't touch either of those under CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU.
(Sidenote: CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU means that the scheduler can preempt tasks in
RCU read-side critical sections, but you're not allowed to actively
block/reschedule.)
Lockdep probably never caught the problem because it's very rare that you
actually hit the contended case, so lockdep always just sees the
down_trylock(), not the down_interruptible(), and so it can't tell that
there's a problem.
Fixes: ea84b580b9 ("pstore: Convert buf_lock to semaphore")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314185953.2068993-1-jannh@google.com
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