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hwrng: virtio - Avoid repeated init of completion
authorDavid Tolnay <dtolnay@gmail.com>
Mon, 7 Jan 2019 22:36:11 +0000 (14:36 -0800)
committerKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:18:49 +0000 (11:18 +0200)
commit6c2e12f37d6b2357a0f44513ab3d67f6a82cc1c9
tree03006a6ead86854bb29809dd69192dd370400275
parentbe2d290a70d440695129fc7b5ca17baeb5fee324
hwrng: virtio - Avoid repeated init of completion

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1838116
[ Upstream commit aef027db48da56b6f25d0e54c07c8401ada6ce21 ]

The virtio-rng driver uses a completion called have_data to wait for a
virtio read to be fulfilled by the hypervisor. The completion is reset
before placing a buffer on the virtio queue and completed by the virtio
callback once data has been written into the buffer.

Prior to this commit, the driver called init_completion on this
completion both during probe as well as when registering virtio buffers
as part of a hwrng read operation. The second of these init_completion
calls should instead be reinit_completion because the have_data
completion has already been inited by probe. As described in
Documentation/scheduler/completion.txt, "Calling init_completion() twice
on the same completion object is most likely a bug".

This bug was present in the initial implementation of virtio-rng in
f7f510ec1957 ("virtio: An entropy device, as suggested by hpa"). Back
then the have_data completion was a single static completion rather than
a member of one of potentially multiple virtrng_info structs as
implemented later by 08e53fbdb85c ("virtio-rng: support multiple
virtio-rng devices"). The original driver incorrectly used
init_completion rather than INIT_COMPLETION to reset have_data during
read.

Tested by running `head -c48 /dev/random | hexdump` within crosvm, the
Chrome OS virtual machine monitor, and confirming that the virtio-rng
driver successfully produces random bytes from the host.

Signed-off-by: David Tolnay <dtolnay@gmail.com>
Tested-by: David Tolnay <dtolnay@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c