From: Jussi Kivilinna Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:42:28 +0000 (+0300) Subject: crypto: cryptd - disable softirqs in cryptd_queue_worker to prevent data corruption X-Git-Tag: v3.7-rc5~9^2 X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9efade1b3e981f5064f9db9ca971b4dc7557ae42;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git crypto: cryptd - disable softirqs in cryptd_queue_worker to prevent data corruption cryptd_queue_worker attempts to prevent simultaneous accesses to crypto workqueue by cryptd_enqueue_request using preempt_disable/preempt_enable. However cryptd_enqueue_request might be called from softirq context, so add local_bh_disable/local_bh_enable to prevent data corruption and panics. Bug report at http://marc.info/?l=linux-crypto-vger&m=134858649616319&w=2 v2: - Disable software interrupts instead of hardware interrupts Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Gurucharan Shetty Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu --- diff --git a/crypto/cryptd.c b/crypto/cryptd.c index 671d4d6d14d..7bdd61b867c 100644 --- a/crypto/cryptd.c +++ b/crypto/cryptd.c @@ -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;