pstore: Convert buf_lock to semaphore

commit ea84b580b95521644429cc6748b6c2bf27c8b0f3 upstream.

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: 21b3ddd39fee ("efi: Don't use spinlocks for efi vars")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
index f5811f448992..0ab595e086c3 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -129,26 +129,27 @@ static const char *get_reason_str(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
 	}
 }
 
-bool pstore_cannot_block_path(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
+/*
+ * Should pstore_dump() wait for a concurrent pstore_dump()? If
+ * not, the current pstore_dump() will report a failure to dump
+ * and return.
+ */
+static bool pstore_cannot_wait(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
 {
-	/*
-	 * In case of NMI path, pstore shouldn't be blocked
-	 * regardless of reason.
-	 */
+	/* In NMI path, pstore shouldn't block regardless of reason. */
 	if (in_nmi())
 		return true;
 
 	switch (reason) {
 	/* In panic case, other cpus are stopped by smp_send_stop(). */
 	case KMSG_DUMP_PANIC:
-	/* Emergency restart shouldn't be blocked by spin lock. */
+	/* Emergency restart shouldn't be blocked. */
 	case KMSG_DUMP_EMERG:
 		return true;
 	default:
 		return false;
 	}
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pstore_cannot_block_path);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PSTORE_ZLIB_COMPRESS
 /* Derived from logfs_compress() */
@@ -499,23 +500,23 @@ static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
 	unsigned long	total = 0;
 	const char	*why;
 	unsigned int	part = 1;
-	unsigned long	flags = 0;
-	int		is_locked;
 	int		ret;
 
 	why = get_reason_str(reason);
 
-	if (pstore_cannot_block_path(reason)) {
-		is_locked = spin_trylock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
-		if (!is_locked) {
-			pr_err("pstore dump routine blocked in %s path, may corrupt error record\n"
-				       , in_nmi() ? "NMI" : why);
+	if (down_trylock(&psinfo->buf_lock)) {
+		/* Failed to acquire lock: give up if we cannot wait. */
+		if (pstore_cannot_wait(reason)) {
+			pr_err("dump skipped in %s path: may corrupt error record\n",
+				in_nmi() ? "NMI" : why);
+			return;
+		}
+		if (down_interruptible(&psinfo->buf_lock)) {
+			pr_err("could not grab semaphore?!\n");
 			return;
 		}
-	} else {
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
-		is_locked = 1;
 	}
+
 	oopscount++;
 	while (total < kmsg_bytes) {
 		char *dst;
@@ -532,7 +533,7 @@ static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
 		record.part = part;
 		record.buf = psinfo->buf;
 
-		if (big_oops_buf && is_locked) {
+		if (big_oops_buf) {
 			dst = big_oops_buf;
 			dst_size = big_oops_buf_sz;
 		} else {
@@ -550,7 +551,7 @@ static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
 					  dst_size, &dump_size))
 			break;
 
-		if (big_oops_buf && is_locked) {
+		if (big_oops_buf) {
 			zipped_len = pstore_compress(dst, psinfo->buf,
 						header_size + dump_size,
 						psinfo->bufsize);
@@ -573,8 +574,8 @@ static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
 		total += record.size;
 		part++;
 	}
-	if (is_locked)
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
+
+	up(&psinfo->buf_lock);
 }
 
 static struct kmsg_dumper pstore_dumper = {
@@ -693,6 +694,7 @@ int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *psi)
 		psi->write_user = pstore_write_user_compat;
 	psinfo = psi;
 	mutex_init(&psinfo->read_mutex);
+	sema_init(&psinfo->buf_lock, 1);
 	spin_unlock(&pstore_lock);
 
 	if (owner && !try_module_get(owner)) {
diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
index f371e03cf3bf..14f8bbd3ee01 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -812,7 +812,6 @@ static int ramoops_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto fail_clear;
 	}
-	spin_lock_init(&cxt->pstore.buf_lock);
 
 	cxt->pstore.flags = PSTORE_FLAGS_DMESG;
 	if (cxt->console_size)