netdev - Re: xfrm_state locking regression...

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Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:48:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	timo.teras@....fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: xfrm_state locking regression...

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:42:56 +0800

> ipsec: Fix xfrm_state_walk race
> 
> As discovered by Timo Teräs, the currently xfrm_state_walk scheme
> is racy because if a second dump finishes before the first, we
> may free xfrm states that the first dump would walk over later.
> 
> This patch fixes this by storing the dumps in a list in order
> to calculate the correct completion counter which cures this
> problem.
> 
> I've expanded netlink_cb in order to accomodate the extra state
> related to this.  It shouldn't be a big deal since netlink_cb
> is kmalloced for each dump and we're just increasing it by 4 or
> 8 bytes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Looks good, applied to net-next-2.6
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