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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2011-11-17 12:58:07 -0800
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2011-11-17 12:58:07 -0800
commitf6f8285132907757ef84ef8dae0a1244b8cde6ac (patch)
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pstore: pass allocated memory region back to caller
The buf_lock cannot be held while populating the inodes, so make the backend pass forward an allocated and filled buffer instead. This solves the following backtrace. The effect is that "buf" is only ever used to notify the backends that something was written to it, and shouldn't be used in the read path. To replace the buf_lock during the read path, isolate the open/read/close loop with a separate mutex to maintain serialized access to the backend. Note that is is up to the pstore backend to cope if the (*write)() path is called in the middle of the read path. [ 59.691019] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at .../mm/slub.c:847 [ 59.691019] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 1819, name: mount [ 59.691019] Pid: 1819, comm: mount Not tainted 3.0.8 #1 [ 59.691019] Call Trace: [ 59.691019] [<810252d5>] __might_sleep+0xc3/0xca [ 59.691019] [<810a26e6>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x32/0xf3 [ 59.691019] [<810b53ac>] ? __d_lookup_rcu+0x6f/0xf4 [ 59.691019] [<810b68b1>] alloc_inode+0x2a/0x64 [ 59.691019] [<810b6903>] new_inode+0x18/0x43 [ 59.691019] [<81142447>] pstore_get_inode.isra.1+0x11/0x98 [ 59.691019] [<81142623>] pstore_mkfile+0xae/0x26f [ 59.691019] [<810a2a66>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x19/0xb1 [ 59.691019] [<8116c821>] ? ida_get_new_above+0x140/0x158 [ 59.691019] [<811708ea>] ? __init_rwsem+0x1e/0x2c [ 59.691019] [<810b67e8>] ? inode_init_always+0x111/0x1b0 [ 59.691019] [<8102127e>] ? should_resched+0xd/0x27 [ 59.691019] [<8137977f>] ? _cond_resched+0xd/0x21 [ 59.691019] [<81142abf>] pstore_get_records+0x52/0xa7 [ 59.691019] [<8114254b>] pstore_fill_super+0x7d/0x91 [ 59.691019] [<810a7ff5>] mount_single+0x46/0x82 [ 59.691019] [<8114231a>] pstore_mount+0x15/0x17 [ 59.691019] [<811424ce>] ? pstore_get_inode.isra.1+0x98/0x98 [ 59.691019] [<810a8199>] mount_fs+0x5a/0x12d [ 59.691019] [<810b9174>] ? alloc_vfsmnt+0xa4/0x14a [ 59.691019] [<810b9474>] vfs_kern_mount+0x4f/0x7d [ 59.691019] [<810b9d7e>] do_kern_mount+0x34/0xb2 [ 59.691019] [<810bb15f>] do_mount+0x5fc/0x64a [ 59.691019] [<810912fb>] ? strndup_user+0x2e/0x3f [ 59.691019] [<810bb3cb>] sys_mount+0x66/0x99 [ 59.691019] [<8137b537>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/efivars.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index 8370f72d87ff..a54a6b972ced 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -457,7 +457,8 @@ static int efi_pstore_close(struct pstore_info *psi)
}
static ssize_t efi_pstore_read(u64 *id, enum pstore_type_id *type,
- struct timespec *timespec, struct pstore_info *psi)
+ struct timespec *timespec,
+ char **buf, struct pstore_info *psi)
{
efi_guid_t vendor = LINUX_EFI_CRASH_GUID;
struct efivars *efivars = psi->data;
@@ -478,7 +479,11 @@ static ssize_t efi_pstore_read(u64 *id, enum pstore_type_id *type,
timespec->tv_nsec = 0;
get_var_data_locked(efivars, &efivars->walk_entry->var);
size = efivars->walk_entry->var.DataSize;
- memcpy(psi->buf, efivars->walk_entry->var.Data, size);
+ *buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (*buf == NULL)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ memcpy(*buf, efivars->walk_entry->var.Data,
+ size);
efivars->walk_entry = list_entry(efivars->walk_entry->list.next,
struct efivar_entry, list);
return size;