[tip: efi/urgent] efivarfs: Don't return -EINTR when rate-limiting reads

From: tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
Date: Fri Jun 19 2020 - 12:53:50 EST


The following commit has been merged into the efi/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 4353f03317fd3eb0bd803b61bdb287b68736a728
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/4353f03317fd3eb0bd803b61bdb287b68736a728
Author: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 28 May 2020 12:49:05 -07:00
Committer: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:38:56 +02:00

efivarfs: Don't return -EINTR when rate-limiting reads

Applications that read EFI variables may see a return
value of -EINTR if they exceed the rate limit and a
signal delivery is attempted while the process is sleeping.

This is quite surprising to the application, which probably
doesn't have code to handle it.

Change the interruptible sleep to a non-interruptible one.

Reported-by: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200528194905.690-3-tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/efivarfs/file.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/file.c b/fs/efivarfs/file.c
index 4b8bc45..feaa5e1 100644
--- a/fs/efivarfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs/file.c
@@ -73,10 +73,8 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf,
ssize_t size = 0;
int err;

- while (!__ratelimit(&file->f_cred->user->ratelimit)) {
- if (!msleep_interruptible(50))
- return -EINTR;
- }
+ while (!__ratelimit(&file->f_cred->user->ratelimit))
+ msleep(50);

err = efivar_entry_size(var, &datasize);