netdev - Re: [Bug 11572] New: udp: unbalanced unlock bug in udp_queue_rcv

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Message-Id: <20080915.115025.69496005.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:50:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 11572] New: udp: unbalanced unlock bug in
 udp_queue_rcv_skb with ipsec

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:34:20 -0700

> udp: Fix rcv socket locking
> 
> The previous patch in response to the recursive locking on IPsec
> reception is broken as it tries to drop the BH socket lock while in
> user context.
> 
> This patch fixes it by shrinking the section protected by the
> socket lock to sock_queue_rcv_skb only.  The only reason we added
> the lock is for the accounting which happens in that function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied, I'll have to queue this up to -stable as well.

Thanks!
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