Commit aef027db authored by David Tolnay's avatar David Tolnay Committed by Herbert Xu

hwrng: virtio - Avoid repeated init of completion

The virtio-rng driver uses a completion called have_data to wait for a
virtio read to be fulfilled by the hypervisor. The completion is reset
before placing a buffer on the virtio queue and completed by the virtio
callback once data has been written into the buffer.

Prior to this commit, the driver called init_completion on this
completion both during probe as well as when registering virtio buffers
as part of a hwrng read operation. The second of these init_completion
calls should instead be reinit_completion because the have_data
completion has already been inited by probe. As described in
Documentation/scheduler/completion.txt, "Calling init_completion() twice
on the same completion object is most likely a bug".

This bug was present in the initial implementation of virtio-rng in
f7f510ec ("virtio: An entropy device, as suggested by hpa"). Back
then the have_data completion was a single static completion rather than
a member of one of potentially multiple virtrng_info structs as
implemented later by 08e53fbd ("virtio-rng: support multiple
virtio-rng devices"). The original driver incorrectly used
init_completion rather than INIT_COMPLETION to reset have_data during
read.

Tested by running `head -c48 /dev/random | hexdump` within crosvm, the
Chrome OS virtual machine monitor, and confirming that the virtio-rng
driver successfully produces random bytes from the host.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Tolnay <dtolnay@gmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarDavid Tolnay <dtolnay@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
parent 1a5e02b6
......@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static int virtio_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t size, bool wait)
if (!vi->busy) {
vi->busy = true;
init_completion(&vi->have_data);
reinit_completion(&vi->have_data);
register_buffer(vi, buf, size);
}
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