netdev - Re: TCP-MD5 checksum failure on x86

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Date:	Sun, 16 May 2010 00:35:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	bhaskie@...il.com, shemminger@...tta.com,
	bhutchings@...arflare.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP-MD5 checksum failure on x86_64 SMP

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 10:00:22 +0200

> [PATCH] tcp: fix MD5 (RFC2385) support
> 
> TCP MD5 support uses percpu data for temporary storage. It currently
> disables preemption so that same storage cannot be reclaimed by another
> thread on same cpu.
> 
> We also have to make sure a softirq handler wont try to use also same
> context. Various bug reports demonstrated corruptions.
> 
> Fix is to disable preemption and BH.
> 
> Reported-by: Bhaskar Dutta <bhaskie@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied.
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