On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:05:13PM +0100, Stephan Müller wrote: > > Shouldn't we then create a patch for the pre-4.14 algif_skcipher code that > moves the wait out of the while loop to the beginning of the function in > recvmsg?
When I said dead-lock I just meant that the recvmsg will block indefinitely. It can still be interrupted from user-space. As the behaviour is currently undefined anyway, I don't think we need to backport this fix. At least not until we maintain a list of ctx->enc like we discussed. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
