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hwrng: fix unregister race.
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The previous patch added one potential problem: we can still be
reading from a hwrng when it's unregistered.  Add a wait for zero
in the hwrng_unregister path.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Rusty Russell authored and Herbert Xu committed Dec 22, 2014
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12 changes: 12 additions & 0 deletions drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
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Expand Up @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(rng_mutex);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(reading_mutex);
static int data_avail;
static u8 *rng_buffer, *rng_fillbuf;
static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(rng_done);
static unsigned short current_quality;
static unsigned short default_quality; /* = 0; default to "off" */

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if (rng->cleanup)
rng->cleanup(rng);

/* cleanup_done should be updated after cleanup finishes */
smp_wmb();
rng->cleanup_done = true;
wake_up_all(&rng_done);
}

static void set_current_rng(struct hwrng *rng)
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add_early_randomness(rng);
}

rng->cleanup_done = false;

out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex);
out:
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kthread_stop(hwrng_fill);
} else
mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex);

/* Just in case rng is reading right now, wait. */
wait_event(rng_done, rng->cleanup_done &&
atomic_read(&rng->ref.refcount) == 0);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwrng_unregister);

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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/linux/hw_random.h
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Expand Up @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ struct hwrng {
/* internal. */
struct list_head list;
struct kref ref;
bool cleanup_done;
};

/** Register a new Hardware Random Number Generator driver. */
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