linux/fs/pstore
Kees Cook ea84b580b9 pstore: Convert buf_lock to semaphore
Instead of running with interrupts disabled, use a semaphore. This should
make it easier for backends that may need to sleep (e.g. EFI) when
performing a write:

|BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/sched/completion.c:99
|in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 2236, name: sig-xstate-bum
|Preemption disabled at:
|[<ffffffff99d60512>] pstore_dump+0x72/0x330
|CPU: 26 PID: 2236 Comm: sig-xstate-bum Tainted: G      D           4.20.0-rc3 #45
|Call Trace:
| dump_stack+0x4f/0x6a
| ___might_sleep.cold.91+0xd3/0xe4
| __might_sleep+0x50/0x90
| wait_for_completion+0x32/0x130
| virt_efi_query_variable_info+0x14e/0x160
| efi_query_variable_store+0x51/0x1a0
| efivar_entry_set_safe+0xa3/0x1b0
| efi_pstore_write+0x109/0x140
| pstore_dump+0x11c/0x330
| kmsg_dump+0xa4/0xd0
| oops_exit+0x22/0x30
...

Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 21b3ddd39f ("efi: Don't use spinlocks for efi vars")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2018-12-03 17:11:02 -08:00
..
ftrace.c pstore: Fix bool initialization/comparison 2018-12-03 16:52:35 -08:00
inode.c pstore: Map PSTORE_TYPE_* to strings 2018-12-03 16:52:35 -08:00
internal.h pstore: Centralize init/exit routines 2018-10-22 07:11:58 -07:00
Kconfig mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK 2018-10-31 08:54:15 -07:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
platform.c pstore: Convert buf_lock to semaphore 2018-12-03 17:11:02 -08:00
pmsg.c pstore: Create common record initializer 2017-05-31 10:13:44 -07:00
ram_core.c pstore/ram: Do not treat empty buffers as valid 2018-12-03 16:52:35 -08:00
ram.c pstore: Convert buf_lock to semaphore 2018-12-03 17:11:02 -08:00