netdev - Re: sha512: make it work, undo percpu message schedule

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Date:	Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:46:04 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ken@...elabs.ch
Subject: Re: sha512: make it work, undo percpu message schedule

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 07:22:56AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
>
> I did not try to reproduce, but this looks like a race of the 'local out'
> and the receive packet path. On 'lokal out' bottom halves are enabled,
> so could be interrupted by the NET_RX_SOFTIRQ while doing a sha512_update.
> The NET_RX_SOFTIRQ could invoke sha512_update too, that would corrupt the
> hash value. My guess could be checked easily by disabling the bottom halves
> before the percpu value is fetched.

Good point.  I'll send out a patch for Alexey to test.

Thanks,
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