Commit 9ca72adc authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6

Pull crypto fix from Herbert Xu:
 "This push fixes a potential panic in cryptd which may occur with
  crypto drivers such as aesni-intel."

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6:
  crypto: cryptd - disable softirqs in cryptd_queue_worker to prevent data corruption
parents 3f561834 9efade1b
......@@ -137,13 +137,18 @@ static void cryptd_queue_worker(struct work_struct *work)
struct crypto_async_request *req, *backlog;
cpu_queue = container_of(work, struct cryptd_cpu_queue, work);
/* Only handle one request at a time to avoid hogging crypto
* workqueue. preempt_disable/enable is used to prevent
* being preempted by cryptd_enqueue_request() */
/*
* Only handle one request at a time to avoid hogging crypto workqueue.
* preempt_disable/enable is used to prevent being preempted by
* cryptd_enqueue_request(). local_bh_disable/enable is used to prevent
* cryptd_enqueue_request() being accessed from software interrupts.
*/
local_bh_disable();
preempt_disable();
backlog = crypto_get_backlog(&cpu_queue->queue);
req = crypto_dequeue_request(&cpu_queue->queue);
preempt_enable();
local_bh_enable();
if (!req)
return;
......
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