From: "Liu, Xinwu" <xinwu....@intel.com> While booting kernel on simulation environment(very slow), kernel panicked:
[ 310.837531] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000102 [ 310.909223] IP: [<ffffffff810acfcd>] __queue_work+0x2d/0x440 [ 312.023898] Call Trace: [ 312.046346] <IRQ> [ 312.064346] [<ffffffff810ad418>] queue_work_on+0x38/0x80 [ 312.115177] [<ffffffff814b364f>] credit_entropy_bits+0x1bf/0x280 [ 312.168986] [<ffffffff814b4c62>] ?add_interrupt_randomness+0x1c2/0x200 [ 312.228023] [<ffffffff814b4c62>] add_interrupt_randomness+0x1c2/0x200 [ 312.285566] [<ffffffff810e4f51>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x31/0x60 [ 312.340869] [<ffffffff810e4fb9>] handle_irq_event+0x39/0x60 [ 312.390955] [<ffffffff810e8480>] handle_edge_irq+0x90/0x150 [ 312.441039] [<ffffffff8101e52d>] handle_irq+0xad/0x180 [ 312.487388] [<ffffffff813cfb67>] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x20 [ 312.543433] [<ffffffff81a4ab37>] do_IRQ+0x57/0xf0 [ 312.586064] [<ffffffff81a490c9>] common_interrupt+0x89/0x89 [ 312.636155] [<ffffffff81a4ad9c>] ? __do_softirq+0x5c/0x337 [ 312.685485] [<ffffffff81a4ae01>] ? __do_softirq+0xc1/0x337 [ 312.734829] [<ffffffff8109a6d5>] irq_exit+0xa5/0xb0 [ 312.778935] [<ffffffff81a4ab40>] do_IRQ+0x60/0xf0 [ 312.821567] [<ffffffff81a490c9>] common_interrupt+0x89/0x89 [ 312.871612] <EOI> [ 312.889628] [<ffffffff813bfda8>] ? delay_tsc+0x38/0xc0 [ 312.938966] [<ffffffff813bfde0>] ? delay_tsc+0x70/0xc0 [ 312.985320] [<ffffffff813bfd07>] __const_udelay+0x27/0x30 [ 313.033907] [<ffffffff82419c35>] timer_irq_works+0x36/0x8f [ 313.083244] [<ffffffff8241a5ca>] setup_IO_APIC+0x30e/0x7da [ 313.132587] [<ffffffff81041cf9>] ? clear_IO_APIC+0x39/0x60 [ 313.181929] [<ffffffff82419124>] apic_bsp_setup+0x86/0x94 [ 313.230517] [<ffffffff8241714f>] native_smp_prepare_cpus+0x26f/0x2e2 [ 313.287320] [<ffffffff82406fc2>] kernel_init_freeable+0xda/0x227 [ 313.341127] [<ffffffff81a3f6ce>] kernel_init+0xe/0x100 [ 313.387481] [<ffffffff81a4897f>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40 [ 313.435322] [<ffffffff81a3f6c0>] ? rest_init+0x90/0x90 [ 313.481649] Code: 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 89 fe 41 55 49 89 d5 41 54 49 89 f4 53 48 83 ec 08 89 7d d4 9c 58 f6 c4 02 0f 85 c4 02 00 00 <41> f6 84 24 02 01 00 00 01 0f 85 df 02 00 00 41 83 fe 20 0f 84 [ 313.743052] RIP [<ffffffff810acfcd>] __queue_work+0x2d/0x440 [ 313.795369] RSP <ffff880072803c68> [ 313.826768] CR2: 0000000000000102 [ 313.856686] --[ end trace bb738d5d79381553 ]-- [ 313.897788] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt 1. Now, all interrupts will contribute to entropy pool. 2. System_wq is initialized by early_initcall, but before that clock event ready long time. During this period, if entropy gathering by timer interrupt cramming input pool, migration happends but system_wq isn't ready, panic hit. So, do basically check first to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Liu, Xinwu <xinwu....@intel.com> --- drivers/char/random.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c index d6876d5..621fcc9 100644 --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -730,7 +730,8 @@ static void credit_entropy_bits(struct entropy_store *r, int nbits) r->entropy_total >= 2*random_read_wakeup_bits) { struct entropy_store *other = &blocking_pool; - if (other->entropy_count <= + if (likely(keventd_up()) && + other->entropy_count <= 3 * other->poolinfo->poolfracbits / 4) { schedule_work(&other->push_work); r->entropy_total = 0; -- 1.9.1