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| author | Herbert Xu | 2007-11-26 19:07:34 +0800 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu | 2007-11-26 19:07:34 +0800 |
| commit | 8053fc3de720e1027d690f892ff7d7c1737fdd9d (patch) | |
| tree | 0437efa29587beb5ebb174c402f7954cfde2269a /net/key | |
| parent | 7f9c33e515353ea91afc62341161fead19e78567 (diff) | |
[IPSEC]: Temporarily remove locks around copying of non-atomic fields
The change 050f009e16f908932070313c1745d09dc69fd62b
[IPSEC]: Lock state when copying non-atomic fields to user-space
caused a regression.
Ingo Molnar reports that it causes a potential dead-lock found by the
lock validator as it tries to take x->lock within xfrm_state_lock while
numerous other sites take the locks in opposite order.
For 2.6.24, the best fix is to simply remove the added locks as that puts
us back in the same state as we've been in for years. For later kernels
a proper fix would be to reverse the locking order for every xfrm state
user such that if x->lock is taken together with xfrm_state_lock then
it is to be taken within it.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/key')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/key/af_key.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/key/af_key.c b/net/key/af_key.c index 3b2d864ab942..878039b9557d 100644 --- a/net/key/af_key.c +++ b/net/key/af_key.c @@ -1015,9 +1015,7 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *pfkey_xfrm_state2msg(struct xfrm_state *x) { struct sk_buff *skb; - spin_lock_bh(&x->lock); skb = __pfkey_xfrm_state2msg(x, 1, 3); - spin_unlock_bh(&x->lock); return skb; } |