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Commit 9efade1b authored by Jussi Kivilinna's avatar Jussi Kivilinna Committed by Herbert Xu
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crypto: cryptd - disable softirqs in cryptd_queue_worker to prevent data corruption

cryptd_queue_worker attempts to prevent simultaneous accesses to crypto
workqueue by cryptd_enqueue_request using preempt_disable/preempt_enable.
However cryptd_enqueue_request might be called from softirq context,
so add local_bh_disable/local_bh_enable to prevent data corruption and
panics.

Bug report at http://marc.info/?l=linux-crypto-vger&m=134858649616319&w=2



v2:
 - Disable software interrupts instead of hardware interrupts

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: default avatarGurucharan Shetty <gurucharan.shetty@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
parent ddffeb8c
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