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Re: [BUG -next] "random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly userspace programs" causes crash

From Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [BUG -next] "random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly userspace programs" causes crash
Date 2016-07-28 08:00 +0200
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:46:01PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 09:14:00AM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > it looks like your patch "random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly
> > userspace programs" within linux-next seems to be a bit broken:
> > 
> > It causes this allocation failure and subsequent crash on s390 with fake
> > NUMA enabled
> 
> Thanks for reporting this.  This patch fixes things for you, yes?
> 
>        	   	     	    	       	     	    - Ted

Yes, it does. It's actually the same what I did to fix this ;)

> commit 59b8d4f1f5d26e4ca92172ff6dcd1492cdb39613
> Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> Date:   Wed Jul 27 23:30:25 2016 -0400
> 
>     random: use for_each_online_node() to iterate over NUMA nodes
>     
>     This fixes a crash on s390 with fake NUMA enabled.
>     
>     Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
>     Fixes: 1e7f583af67b ("random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly userspace programs")
>     Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
> index 8d0af74..7f06224 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/random.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/random.c
> @@ -1668,13 +1668,12 @@ static int rand_initialize(void)
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
>  	pool = kmalloc(num_nodes * sizeof(void *),
>  		       GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_ZERO);
> -	for (i=0; i < num_nodes; i++) {
> +	for_each_online_node(i) {
>  		crng = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct crng_state),
>  				    GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL, i);
>  		spin_lock_init(&crng->lock);
>  		crng_initialize(crng);
>  		pool[i] = crng;
> -
>  	}
>  	mb();
>  	crng_node_pool = pool;
> 

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[BUG -next] "random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly userspace  programs" causes crash Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> - 2016-07-27 09:20 +0200
  Re: [BUG -next] "random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly  userspace programs" causes crash Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-07-28 05:50 +0200
    Re: [BUG -next] "random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly  userspace programs" causes crash Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> - 2016-07-28 08:00 +0200
      Re: [BUG -next] "random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly  userspace programs" causes crash Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> - 2016-07-28 09:30 +0200
        Re: [BUG -next] "random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly  userspace programs" causes crash Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-07-28 15:50 +0200
          Re: [BUG -next] "random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly  userspace programs" causes crash Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> - 2016-07-29 02:00 +0200
    Re: [BUG -next] "random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly  userspace programs" causes crash Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-07-28 20:20 +0200

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