Am Freitag, 3. April 2015, 23:52:46 schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert,
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 05:17:13PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > Wpuldn't crypto_del_alg suffer from the same issue? I see that the > > cra_refcnt is checked. But I guess there would be the same kind of race? > > You're quite right. It too needs to take a ref count on the > algorithm in crypto_alg_match before releasing the mutex. > What about moving the current crypto_unregister_instance into __crypto_unregister_instance and creating a new crypto_unregister_instance that takes the ref count and once it got it, it calls __crypto_unregister_instance. If it did not get the ref count, it simply returns because the inst apparently was already removed. Only the crypto_unregister_instance is EXPORT_SYMBOL whereas the __crypto_unregister_instance is static. > Cheers, -- Ciao Stephan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
