On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:02:20AM +0200, Sebastian Siewior wrote: > > >BTW, the dead-lock does exist after all. The lock that's held > >is the user-space file lock held by modprobe. Assuming that > >padlock-sha comes before sha in the alias list, then the second > >modprobe will hit padlock-sha again and dead-lock. > > Really, hmm. That CRYPTO_ALG_NEED_FALLBACK flag is unused than? That flag is only known to the crypto code. Modprobe knows nothing of it so the two probes will look the same to modprobe. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html