efi_pstore: Introducing workqueue updating sysfs

[Problem]
efi_pstore creates sysfs entries, which enable users to access to NVRAM,
in a write callback. If a kernel panic happens in an interrupt context,
it may fail because it could sleep due to dynamic memory allocations during
creating sysfs entries.

[Patch Description]
This patch removes sysfs operations from a write callback by introducing
a workqueue updating sysfs entries which is scheduled after the write
callback is called.

Also, the workqueue is kicked in a just oops case.
A system will go down in other cases such as panic, clean shutdown and emergency
restart. And we don't need to create sysfs entries because there is no chance for
users to access to them.

efi_pstore will be robust against a kernel panic in an interrupt context with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
index 8b84916..d0c68ae 100644
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -728,7 +728,8 @@ struct efivars {
 	 * 1) ->list - adds, removals, reads, writes
 	 * 2) ops.[gs]et_variable() calls.
 	 * It must not be held when creating sysfs entries or calling kmalloc.
-	 * ops.get_next_variable() is only called from register_efivars(),
+	 * ops.get_next_variable() is only called from register_efivars()
+	 * or efivar_update_sysfs_entries(),
 	 * which is protected by the BKL, so that path is safe.
 	 */
 	spinlock_t lock;