netdev - Re: IPSEC in 2.6.25 causes stalled connections

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Message-ID: <20080710131642.GB22105@swan.nt.tuwien.ac.at>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:16:42 +0200
From:	Thomas Zeitlhofer <tzeitlho+lkml@...tuwien.ac.at>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPSEC in 2.6.25 causes stalled connections

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 05:43:45PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> OK, found it: chainiv never called the completion function!
> 
> commit 066068afee313b7746e7a3de05b57dcd4149a2fe
> Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Date:   Thu Jul 10 17:42:36 2008 +0800
> 
>     crypto: chainiv - Invoke completion function
>     
>     When chainiv postpones requests it never calls their completion functions.
>     This causes symptoms such as memory leaks when IPsec is in use.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Confirmed, your patch fixes the problem.

Thanks a lot!

Thomas
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