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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2019-12-07 22:15:15 +0800
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2019-12-11 16:48:38 +0800
commitbc1d8cb6169a2deb7dbcad8ac6ed8ade1bc2bb05 (patch)
tree05d67f852eecd755f29595aeabac40223b4e9624 /crypto/api.c
parentbc39d9486351deb0881a382c6c2d52b73467d304 (diff)
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crypto: api - Fix race condition in crypto_spawn_alg
The function crypto_spawn_alg is racy because it drops the lock before shooting the dying algorithm. The algorithm could disappear altogether before we shoot it. This patch fixes it by moving the shooting into the locked section. Fixes: 525ed3dcb430 ("[CRYPTO] api: Added spawns") Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/api.c')
-rw-r--r--crypto/api.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/api.c b/crypto/api.c
index ef96142c..676d54ff 100644
--- a/crypto/api.c
+++ b/crypto/api.c
@@ -331,13 +331,12 @@ static unsigned int crypto_ctxsize(struct crypto_alg *alg, u32 type, u32 mask)
return len;
}
-void crypto_shoot_alg(struct crypto_alg *alg)
+static void crypto_shoot_alg(struct crypto_alg *alg)
{
down_write(&crypto_alg_sem);
alg->cra_flags |= CRYPTO_ALG_DYING;
up_write(&crypto_alg_sem);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_shoot_alg);
struct crypto_tfm *__crypto_alloc_tfm(struct crypto_alg *alg, u32 type,
u32 mask)