On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 06:00:53PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:
> This patch adds a missing sctp_spin_unlock_irqrestore when returning
> from "if(space_left<addrlen)" condition.
> if (copy_to_user(*to, &temp, addrlen)) {
> - sctp_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sctp_local_addr_lock,
> - flags);
> - return -EFAULT;
> + err = -EFAULT;
> + goto unlock;
> + sctp_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sctp_local_addr_lock, flags);
> + return err;
> }
You do realize that it's obviously still badly broken, don't you?
copy_to_user() under a spinlock is a recipe for deadlock, especially
if you've got interrupts disabled...
I have a beginning of locking fixes in that shitpile, but it's incomplete
and bloody painful ;-/
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