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| author | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2007-11-26 19:07:34 +0800 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2007-11-26 19:07:34 +0800 |
| commit | 8053fc3de720e1027d690f892ff7d7c1737fdd9d (patch) | |
| tree | 0437efa29587beb5ebb174c402f7954cfde2269a /net/xfrm | |
| parent | 7f9c33e515353ea91afc62341161fead19e78567 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-8053fc3de720e1027d690f892ff7d7c1737fdd9d.tar.gz lwn-8053fc3de720e1027d690f892ff7d7c1737fdd9d.zip | |
[IPSEC]: Temporarily remove locks around copying of non-atomic fields
The change 050f009e16f908932070313c1745d09dc69fd62b
[IPSEC]: Lock state when copying non-atomic fields to user-space
caused a regression.
Ingo Molnar reports that it causes a potential dead-lock found by the
lock validator as it tries to take x->lock within xfrm_state_lock while
numerous other sites take the locks in opposite order.
For 2.6.24, the best fix is to simply remove the added locks as that puts
us back in the same state as we've been in for years. For later kernels
a proper fix would be to reverse the locking order for every xfrm state
user such that if x->lock is taken together with xfrm_state_lock then
it is to be taken within it.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/xfrm')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c index d41588d101d0..e75dbdcb08a4 100644 --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c @@ -507,7 +507,6 @@ static int copy_to_user_state_extra(struct xfrm_state *x, struct xfrm_usersa_info *p, struct sk_buff *skb) { - spin_lock_bh(&x->lock); copy_to_user_state(x, p); if (x->coaddr) @@ -515,7 +514,6 @@ static int copy_to_user_state_extra(struct xfrm_state *x, if (x->lastused) NLA_PUT_U64(skb, XFRMA_LASTUSED, x->lastused); - spin_unlock_bh(&x->lock); if (x->aalg) NLA_PUT(skb, XFRMA_ALG_AUTH, alg_len(x->aalg), x->aalg); |