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LIN1018-3832 : Missing commit: fs/pstore: use raw_spin_lock in pstore_dump to make it irq safe

Created: Apr 3, 2019 Updated: May 9, 2019

Resolved Date: Apr 14, 2019

Found In Version: 10.18.44.4

Fix Version: 10.18.44.6

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 18

Component/s: Kernel

Description

Backport upstream commit

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: Zhang Xiao <xiao.zhang@windriver.com>