On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 10:36:59AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > While backporting an upstream patch to one of our older distro kernels I've > found a weird locking hierarchy in the virtio crypto driver: > > virtio_config_changed(): > spin_lock_irqsave() > ->__virtio_config_changed() > ->drv->config_changed() <- assume drv == virtio_crypto_driver > virtcrypto_config_changed(): > ->virtcrypto_update_status() > ->virtcrypto_dev_start() > ->virtio_crypto_skcipher_algs_register() > mutex_lock() > > I don't think trying to take a mutex while holding a spinlock with interrupts > disabled is a proper thing to do. > > Am I overlooking something here? > > > Juergen
Yes - this seems like a bug in virtcrypto - for example, virt blk queues a work for this reason. It's so common that it might make sense to move the config work into virtio core. In any case, patches welcome. -- MST _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
