Re: crypto: BUG: spinlock recursion when doing iperf over ipsec with crypto hardware device

From: Corentin Labbe
Date: Tue Jan 18 2022 - 02:52:59 EST


Le Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 08:12:26AM +0100, Corentin Labbe a écrit :
> Le Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 03:23:26PM +1100, Herbert Xu a écrit :
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 03:14:38PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 10:47:12AM +0100, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > > >
> > > > [ 44.646050] [<c0100afc>] (__irq_svc) from [<c080b9d4>] (xfrm_replay_advance+0x11c/0x3dc)
> > > > [ 44.654143] [<c080b9d4>] (xfrm_replay_advance) from [<c0809388>] (xfrm_input+0x4d0/0x1304)
> > > > [ 44.662408] [<c0809388>] (xfrm_input) from [<c03a3d88>] (crypto_finalize_request+0x5c/0xc4)
> > > > [ 44.670766] [<c03a3d88>] (crypto_finalize_request) from [<c06a0888>] (sun8i_ce_cipher_run+0x34/0x3c)
> > > > [ 44.679900] [<c06a0888>] (sun8i_ce_cipher_run) from [<c03a4264>] (crypto_pump_work+0x1a8/0x330)
> > >
> > > So did sun8i_ce_cipher_run ensure that BH is disabled before
> > > invoking xfrm_input? If not then this explains the dead-lock.
> >
> > The issue appears to be with crypto_engine. It needs to ensure
> > that completion functions are called with BH disabled, not IRQ
> > disabled and definitely not BH enabled.
> >
>
> Hello
>
> This minimal patch fix my issue, does it is the rigth way ?
>
> Thanks for your help
> Regards
>
> diff --git a/crypto/crypto_engine.c b/crypto/crypto_engine.c
> index fb07da9920ee..b3844f6d98a3 100644
> --- a/crypto/crypto_engine.c
> +++ b/crypto/crypto_engine.c
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
> * Author: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> */
>
> +#include <linux/bottom_half.h>
> #include <linux/err.h>
> #include <linux/delay.h>
> #include <linux/device.h>
> @@ -53,7 +54,9 @@ static void crypto_finalize_request(struct crypto_engine *engine,
> dev_err(engine->dev, "failed to unprepare request\n");
> }
> }
> + local_bh_disable();
> req->complete(req, err);
> + local_bh_enable();
>
> kthread_queue_work(engine->kworker, &engine->pump_requests);
> }
>

Hello

With my patch, I got:
[ 38.515668] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at crypto/skcipher.c:482
[ 38.523708] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 84, name: 1c15000.crypto-
[ 38.532176] preempt_count: 200, expected: 0
[ 38.536381] CPU: 6 PID: 84 Comm: 1c15000.crypto- Not tainted 5.16.0-next-20220115-00124-g13473e8fac33-dirty #116
[ 38.546551] Hardware name: Allwinner A83t board
[ 38.551100] unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14
[ 38.556358] show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x40/0x4c
[ 38.561428] dump_stack_lvl from __might_resched+0x118/0x154
[ 38.567107] __might_resched from skcipher_walk_virt+0xe8/0xec
[ 38.572955] skcipher_walk_virt from crypto_cbc_decrypt+0x2c/0x170
[ 38.579147] crypto_cbc_decrypt from crypto_skcipher_decrypt+0x38/0x5c
[ 38.585680] crypto_skcipher_decrypt from authenc_verify_ahash_done+0x18/0x34
[ 38.592825] authenc_verify_ahash_done from crypto_finalize_request+0x6c/0xe4
[ 38.599974] crypto_finalize_request from sun8i_ss_hash_run+0x73c/0xb98
[ 38.606602] sun8i_ss_hash_run from crypto_pump_work+0x1a8/0x330
[ 38.612616] crypto_pump_work from kthread_worker_fn+0xa8/0x1c4
[ 38.618550] kthread_worker_fn from kthread+0xf0/0x110
[ 38.623701] kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c
[ 38.628414] Exception stack(0xc2247fb0 to 0xc2247ff8)
[ 38.633468] 7fa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 38.641640] 7fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 38.649809] 7fe0:i 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000

This is when testing hmac(sha1) on my crypto driver sun8i-ss and crypto testing authenc(hmac-sha1-sun8i-ss,cbc(aes-generic)).

Do you have any idea to better fix my issue ?

Regards