From patchwork Thu Dec 6 03:23:31 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski X-Patchwork-Id: 204101 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from chlorine.canonical.com (chlorine.canonical.com [91.189.94.204]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E277E2C01C8 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 14:23:53 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=chlorine.canonical.com) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgS3o-0003mj-Mq; Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:23:40 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgS3m-0003mX-7W for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:23:38 +0000 Received: from [177.16.122.79] (helo=canonical.com) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgS3k-0005Fq-6O; Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:23:36 +0000 From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski To: Jussi Kivilinna Subject: [ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "crypto: cryptd - disable softirqs in cryptd_queue_worker to" has been added to staging queue Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 01:23:31 -0200 Message-Id: <1354764211-28371-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.5 Cc: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, Gurucharan Shetty , Herbert Xu X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled crypto: cryptd - disable softirqs in cryptd_queue_worker to to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Herton ------ From 95b83e9c4a245eba62f6341336e9c51336dab125 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jussi Kivilinna Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:42:28 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] crypto: cryptd - disable softirqs in cryptd_queue_worker to prevent data corruption X-Extended-Stable: 3.5 commit 9efade1b3e981f5064f9db9ca971b4dc7557ae42 upstream. 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 Reported-by: Gurucharan Shetty Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski --- crypto/cryptd.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 1.7.9.5 diff --git a/crypto/cryptd.c b/crypto/cryptd.c index 671d4d6..7bdd61b 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;