netdev - Re: [PATCH V2] Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in shash_setkey

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Date:   Thu, 5 Oct 2017 21:16:31 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     marcelo.leitner@...il.com, luto@...nel.org, baijiaju1990@....com,
        nhorman@...driver.com, vyasevich@...il.com, kvalo@...eaurora.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in shash_setkey_unaligned

On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 06:16:20PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> That was my point.  Functions like sctp_pack_cookie shouldn't be
> setting the key in the first place.  The setkey should happen at
> the point when the key is generated.  That's sctp_endpoint_init
> which AFAICS only gets called in GFP_KERNEL context.
> 
> Or is there a code-path where sctp_endpoint_init is called in
> softirq context?

OK, there are indeed code paths where the key is derived in softirq
context.  Notably sctp_auth_calculate_hmac.

So I think this patch is the correct fix and I will push it upstream
as well as back to stable.

Thanks,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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