From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] crypto: AF_ALG - remove locking in async callback Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 18:37:39 +1100 Message-ID: <20171124073739.GB15597@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <2510520.gYBNS8MAsP@positron.chronox.de> <20171110111058.GA25914@gondor.apana.org.au> <1966139.WIlnTlQG5u@positron.chronox.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Tudor Ambarus , Cyrille Pitchen , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Romain Izard , linux-arm-kernel To: Stephan =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?= Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1966139.WIlnTlQG5u@positron.chronox.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 01:20:55PM +0100, Stephan M=FCller wrote: > The code paths protected by the socket-lock do not use or modify the > socket in a non-atomic fashion. The actions pertaining the socket do not > even need to be handled as an atomic operation. Thus, the socket-lock > can be safely ignored. > = > This fixes a bug regarding scheduling in atomic as the callback function > may be invoked in interrupt context. > = > In addition, the sock_hold is moved before the AIO encrypt/decrypt > operation to ensure that the socket is always present. This avoids a > tiny race window where the socket is unprotected and yet used by the AIO > operation. > = > Finally, the release of resources for a crypto operation is moved into a > common function of af_alg_free_resources. > = > Fixes: e870456d8e7c8 ("crypto: algif_skcipher - overhaul memory managemen= t") > Fixes: d887c52d6ae43 ("crypto: algif_aead - overhaul memory management") > Reported-by: Romain Izard > Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller Patch applied. Thanks. -- = Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt