netdev - Re: [IPSEC] xfrm_state locking problem in xfrm

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Date:	Tue, 12 May 2009 00:05:16 -0400
From:	Yury Polyanskiy <ypolyans@...nceton.EDU>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [IPSEC] xfrm_state locking problem in xfrm_input.c

On Tue, 12 May 2009 13:48:13 +1000
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 06:47:39PM -0400, Yury Polyanskiy wrote:
> > xfrm_input() code uses spin_lock() where it must be using
> > spin_lock_bh() instead. The corresponding code in xfrm_output.c
> > correctly uses spin_lock_bh(). 
> > 
> > Note that if the locally generated packet is sent to a local ip,
> > dev_queue_xmit() calls loopback_xmit() and the xfrm_input() will be
> > called with softirqs enabled.
> 
> dev_queue_xmit always disables BH before calling the device xmit
> function.  So how can this happen?
> 

Oops, you right. Thanks for the explanation!

YP

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