[PATCH] zram: do not lookup algorithm in backends table

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Tue Jun 21 2022 - 22:35:15 EST


Always use crypto_has_comp() so that crypto can lookup module,
call usermodhelper to load the modules, wait for usermodhelper
to finish and so on. Otherwise crypto will do all of these steps
under CPU hot-plug lock and this looks like too much stuff to
handle under the CPU hot-plug lock. Besides this can end up in
a deadlock when usermodhelper triggers a code path that attempts
to lock the CPU hot-plug lock, that zram already holds.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
index 052aa3f65514..398eb9e24eff 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
@@ -63,12 +63,6 @@ static int zcomp_strm_init(struct zcomp_strm *zstrm, struct zcomp *comp)

bool zcomp_available_algorithm(const char *comp)
{
- int i;
-
- i = sysfs_match_string(backends, comp);
- if (i >= 0)
- return true;
-
/*
* Crypto does not ignore a trailing new line symbol,
* so make sure you don't supply a string containing
--
2.37.0.rc0.104.g0611611a94-goog