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From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:04:32 +0200
Subject: efi: vars: Don't drop lock in the middle of efivar_init()
Patch-mainline: v6.0-rc1
Git-commit: ec3507b2ca51286de6ecd85fdac8e722219cdef8
References: jsc#PED-1409

Even though the efivars_lock lock is documented as protecting the
efivars->ops pointer (among other things), efivar_init() happily
releases and reacquires the lock for every EFI variable that it
enumerates. This used to be needed because the lock was originally a
spinlock, which prevented the callback that is invoked for every
variable from being able to sleep. However, releasing the lock could
potentially invalidate the ops pointer, but more importantly, it might
allow a SetVariable() runtime service call to take place concurrently,
and the UEFI spec does not define how this affects an enumeration that
is running in parallel using the GetNextVariable() runtime service,
which is what efivar_init() uses.

In the meantime, the lock has been converted into a semaphore, and the
only reason we need to drop the lock is because the efivarfs pseudo
filesystem driver will otherwise deadlock when it invokes the efivars
API from the callback to create the efivar_entry items and insert them
into the linked list. (EFI pstore is affected in a similar way)

So let's switch to helpers that can be used while the lock is already
taken. This way, we can hold on to the lock throughout the enumeration.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c |    7 ++-----
 drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c    |    5 +----
 drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c       |   22 +++++++++++-----------
 fs/efivarfs/super.c               |    6 ++----
 include/linux/efi.h               |    1 +
 5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
@@ -364,7 +364,6 @@ static int efi_pstore_callback(efi_char1
 			       unsigned long name_size, void *data)
 {
 	struct efivar_entry *entry;
-	int ret;
 
 	entry = kzalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!entry)
@@ -373,11 +372,9 @@ static int efi_pstore_callback(efi_char1
 	memcpy(entry->var.VariableName, name, name_size);
 	entry->var.VendorGuid = vendor;
 
-	ret = efivar_entry_add(entry, &efi_pstore_list);
-	if (ret)
-		kfree(entry);
+	__efivar_entry_add(entry, &efi_pstore_list);
 
-	return ret;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int efi_pstore_update_entry(efi_char16_t *name, efi_guid_t vendor,
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
@@ -527,10 +527,7 @@ efivar_create_sysfs_entry(struct efivar_
 	}
 
 	kobject_uevent(&new_var->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
-	if (efivar_entry_add(new_var, &efivar_sysfs_list)) {
-		efivar_unregister(new_var);
-		return -EINTR;
-	}
+	__efivar_entry_add(new_var, &efivar_sysfs_list);
 
 	return 0;
 }
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c
@@ -450,9 +450,6 @@ int efivar_init(int (*func)(efi_char16_t
 						&vendor_guid);
 		switch (status) {
 		case EFI_SUCCESS:
-			if (duplicates)
-				up(&efivars_lock);
-
 			variable_name_size = var_name_strnsize(variable_name,
 							       variable_name_size);
 
@@ -476,14 +473,6 @@ int efivar_init(int (*func)(efi_char16_t
 				if (err)
 					status = EFI_NOT_FOUND;
 			}
-
-			if (duplicates) {
-				if (down_interruptible(&efivars_lock)) {
-					err = -EINTR;
-					goto free;
-				}
-			}
-
 			break;
 		case EFI_UNSUPPORTED:
 			err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
@@ -527,6 +516,17 @@ int efivar_entry_add(struct efivar_entry
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(efivar_entry_add);
 
 /**
+ * __efivar_entry_add - add entry to variable list
+ * @entry: entry to add to list
+ * @head: list head
+ */
+void __efivar_entry_add(struct efivar_entry *entry, struct list_head *head)
+{
+	list_add(&entry->list, head);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__efivar_entry_add);
+
+/**
  * efivar_entry_remove - remove entry from variable list
  * @entry: entry to remove from list
  *
--- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
@@ -155,10 +155,8 @@ static int efivarfs_callback(efi_char16_
 		goto fail_inode;
 	}
 
-	efivar_entry_size(entry, &size);
-	err = efivar_entry_add(entry, &efivarfs_list);
-	if (err)
-		goto fail_inode;
+	__efivar_entry_get(entry, NULL, &size, NULL);
+	__efivar_entry_add(entry, &efivarfs_list);
 
 	/* copied by the above to local storage in the dentry. */
 	kfree(name);
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -1062,6 +1062,7 @@ int efivar_init(int (*func)(efi_char16_t
 		void *data, bool duplicates, struct list_head *head);
 
 int efivar_entry_add(struct efivar_entry *entry, struct list_head *head);
+void __efivar_entry_add(struct efivar_entry *entry, struct list_head *head);
 int efivar_entry_remove(struct efivar_entry *entry);
 
 int __efivar_entry_delete(struct efivar_entry *entry);