Re: [PATCH V2] Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in shash_setkey_unaligned

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On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 07:45:06PM -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
>
> > Usually if you're invoking setkey from a non-sleeping code-path
> > you're probably doing something wrong.
> 
> Usually but not always. There are 3 calls to that function on SCTP
> code:
> - pack a cookie, which is sent on an INIT_ACK packet to the client
> - unpack the cookie above, after it is sent back by the client on a
>   COOKIE_ECHO packet
> - send a chunk authenticated by a hash

I'm not talking about the code-path in question.  I'm talking
about the function which generates the secret key in the first
place.  AFAICS that's only called in GFP_KERNEL context.  What
am I missing?

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