On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 07:38:28PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 07, 2019 at 10:15:15PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Does this need Fixes and Cc stable tags?
Fixes: 6bfd48096ff8 ("[CRYPTO] api: Added spawns")
I don't think we want this to go through stable right away. Perhaps
a few cycles down the track it could be pushed to stable. It's
certainly not an urgent problem.
Cheers,
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