Merge tag 'pstore-v5.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

Pull pstore updates from Kees Cook:

 - Don't use semaphores in always-atomic-context code (Jann Horn)

 - Add "ECC:" prefix to ECC messages (Vincent Whitchurch)

* tag 'pstore-v5.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  pstore: Don't use semaphores in always-atomic-context code
  pstore: Add prefix to ECC messages

4 files changed, 24 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
index 0ef086e43090..7e771c56c13c 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ static int efi_pstore_write(struct pstore_record *record)
 		efi_name[i] = name[i];
 
 	ret = efivar_entry_set_safe(efi_name, vendor, PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES,
-			      preemptible(), record->size, record->psi->buf);
+			      false, record->size, record->psi->buf);
 
 	if (record->reason == KMSG_DUMP_OOPS && try_module_get(THIS_MODULE))
 		if (!schedule_work(&efivar_work))
diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
index f243cb5e6a4f..e26162f102ff 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -143,21 +143,22 @@ static void pstore_timer_kick(void)
 	mod_timer(&pstore_timer, jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(pstore_update_ms));
 }
 
-/*
- * Should pstore_dump() wait for a concurrent pstore_dump()? If
- * not, the current pstore_dump() will report a failure to dump
- * and return.
- */
-static bool pstore_cannot_wait(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
+static bool pstore_cannot_block_path(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
 {
-	/* In NMI path, pstore shouldn't block regardless of reason. */
+	/*
+	 * In case of NMI path, pstore shouldn't be blocked
+	 * regardless of reason.
+	 */
 	if (in_nmi())
 		return true;
 
 	switch (reason) {
 	/* In panic case, other cpus are stopped by smp_send_stop(). */
 	case KMSG_DUMP_PANIC:
-	/* Emergency restart shouldn't be blocked. */
+	/*
+	 * Emergency restart shouldn't be blocked by spinning on
+	 * pstore_info::buf_lock.
+	 */
 	case KMSG_DUMP_EMERG:
 		return true;
 	default:
@@ -389,21 +390,19 @@ static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
 	unsigned long	total = 0;
 	const char	*why;
 	unsigned int	part = 1;
+	unsigned long	flags = 0;
 	int		ret;
 
 	why = kmsg_dump_reason_str(reason);
 
-	if (down_trylock(&psinfo->buf_lock)) {
-		/* Failed to acquire lock: give up if we cannot wait. */
-		if (pstore_cannot_wait(reason)) {
-			pr_err("dump skipped in %s path: may corrupt error record\n",
-				in_nmi() ? "NMI" : why);
-			return;
-		}
-		if (down_interruptible(&psinfo->buf_lock)) {
-			pr_err("could not grab semaphore?!\n");
+	if (pstore_cannot_block_path(reason)) {
+		if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags)) {
+			pr_err("dump skipped in %s path because of concurrent dump\n",
+					in_nmi() ? "NMI" : why);
 			return;
 		}
+	} else {
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
 	}
 
 	kmsg_dump_rewind(&iter);
@@ -467,8 +466,7 @@ static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
 		total += record.size;
 		part++;
 	}
-
-	up(&psinfo->buf_lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
 }
 
 static struct kmsg_dumper pstore_dumper = {
@@ -594,7 +592,7 @@ int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *psi)
 		psi->write_user = pstore_write_user_compat;
 	psinfo = psi;
 	mutex_init(&psinfo->read_mutex);
-	sema_init(&psinfo->buf_lock, 1);
+	spin_lock_init(&psinfo->buf_lock);
 
 	if (psi->flags & PSTORE_FLAGS_DMESG)
 		allocate_buf_for_compression();
diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
index fe5305028c6e..a89e33719fcf 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
@@ -263,10 +263,10 @@ ssize_t persistent_ram_ecc_string(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz,
 
 	if (prz->corrected_bytes || prz->bad_blocks)
 		ret = snprintf(str, len, ""
-			"\n%d Corrected bytes, %d unrecoverable blocks\n",
+			"\nECC: %d Corrected bytes, %d unrecoverable blocks\n",
 			prz->corrected_bytes, prz->bad_blocks);
 	else
-		ret = snprintf(str, len, "\nNo errors detected\n");
+		ret = snprintf(str, len, "\nECC: No errors detected\n");
 
 	return ret;
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/pstore.h b/include/linux/pstore.h
index eb93a54cff31..e97a8188f0fd 100644
--- a/include/linux/pstore.h
+++ b/include/linux/pstore.h
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/kmsg_dump.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
-#include <linux/semaphore.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/time.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ struct pstore_record {
  * @owner:	module which is responsible for this backend driver
  * @name:	name of the backend driver
  *
- * @buf_lock:	semaphore to serialize access to @buf
+ * @buf_lock:	spinlock to serialize access to @buf
  * @buf:	preallocated crash dump buffer
  * @bufsize:	size of @buf available for crash dump bytes (must match
  *		smallest number of bytes available for writing to a
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ struct pstore_info {
 	struct module	*owner;
 	const char	*name;
 
-	struct semaphore buf_lock;
+	spinlock_t	buf_lock;
 	char		*buf;
 	size_t		bufsize;