netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/4] xfrm: remove policy lock when accessing policy->walk.dead

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <1270119195.26743.141.camel@bigi>
Date:	Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:53:15 -0400
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, timo.teras@....fi,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] xfrm: remove policy lock when accessing
 policy->walk.dead


Ive tried it with net-next which is derived of 2.6.34-rc1
and it seems to work as expected
i.e. only the flush on a non-empty SAD is event-ed.
Probably older kernel you are running?

cheers,
jamal

On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 22:19 -0400, jamal wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 08:22 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> > OK, in that case please change xfrm_state_flush too.  Right now
> > it also notifies on empty.
> 
> It shouldnt. I will double check it tomorrow..
> 
> cheers,
> jamal

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html