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Commit a543ada7 authored by Toke Høiland-Jørgensen's avatar Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Committed by Herbert Xu
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crypto: api - Demote BUG_ON() in crypto_unregister_alg() to a WARN_ON()

The crypto_unregister_alg() function expects callers to ensure that any
algorithm that is unregistered has a refcnt of exactly 1, and issues a
BUG_ON() if this is not the case. However, there are in fact drivers that
will call crypto_unregister_alg() without ensuring that the refcnt has been
lowered first, most notably on system shutdown. This causes the BUG_ON() to
trigger, which prevents a clean shutdown and hangs the system.

To avoid such hangs on shutdown, demote the BUG_ON() in
crypto_unregister_alg() to a WARN_ON() with early return. Cc stable because
this problem was observed on a 6.2 kernel, cf the link below.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87r0tyq8ph.fsf@toke.dk


Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
parent e6af5c0c
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