Revision 2ba293c9e7db150943f06b12d3eb7213e7fae624 authored by Luis R. Rodriguez on 18 August 2017, 22:15:58 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 18 August 2017, 22:32:01 UTC
Recursive loops with module loading were previously handled in kmod by restricting the number of modprobe calls to 50 and if that limit was breached request_module() would return an error and a user would see the following on their kernel dmesg: request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c Starting init:/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8) This issue could happen for instance when a 64-bit kernel boots a 32-bit userspace on some architectures and has no 32-bit binary format hanlders. This is visible, for instance, when a CONFIG_MODULES enabled 64-bit MIPS kernel boots a into o32 root filesystem and the binfmt handler for o32 binaries is not built-in. After commit 6d7964a722af ("kmod: throttle kmod thread limit") we now don't have any visible signs of an error and the kernel just waits for the loop to end somehow. Although this *particular* recursive loop could also be addressed by doing a sanity check on search_binary_handler() and disallowing a modular binfmt to be required for modprobe, a generic solution for any recursive kernel kmod issues is still needed. This should catch these loops. We can investigate each loop and address each one separately as they come in, this however puts a stop gap for them as before. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170809234635.13443-3-mcgrof@kernel.org Fixes: 6d7964a722af ("kmod: throttle kmod thread limit") Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Reported-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com> Tested-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgetc.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com> Cc: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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