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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: cdleonard@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] tcp md5 use of alloc_percpu
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:53:24 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141022.175324.351857495227075331.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5447FDB2.2010906@gmail.com>

From: Crestez Dan Leonard <cdleonard@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 21:55:46 +0300

>  static int tcp_v4_md5_hash_pseudoheader(struct tcp_md5sig_pool *hp,
>  					__be32 daddr, __be32 saddr, int nbytes)
>  {
> -	struct tcp4_pseudohdr *bp;
> +	struct tcp4_pseudohdr bp;
...
> +	sg_init_one(&sg, &bp, sizeof(bp));
> +	return crypto_hash_update(&hp->md5_desc, &sg, sizeof(bp));

As others have mentioned, you cannot do this.

On some architectures the kernel stack comes from vmalloc()
memory too.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-22 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-22 18:55 [RFC] tcp md5 use of alloc_percpu Crestez Dan Leonard
2014-10-22 19:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-22 21:35   ` Jonathan Toppins
2014-10-22 23:05   ` Crestez Dan Leonard
2014-10-24  9:33     ` Herbert Xu
2014-10-22 21:53 ` David Miller [this message]
2014-10-22 23:38 ` Jonathan Toppins
2014-10-23  1:00   ` Crestez Dan Leonard
2014-10-23  1:47     ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-23  4:40 ` David Ahern
2014-10-23  5:23   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-23  5:38     ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-23  6:58       ` Jonathan Toppins
2014-10-23 13:21         ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-23 14:43           ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-23 16:17             ` Crestez Dan Leonard
2014-10-23 19:22               ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-23 16:33             ` [PATCH net] tcp: md5: percpu tcp_md5sig_pool must not span pages Eric Dumazet
2014-10-23 19:34               ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-23 19:58               ` [PATCH v2 net] tcp: md5: do not use alloc_percpu() Eric Dumazet
2014-10-23 20:44                 ` David Ahern
2014-10-23 22:57                   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-23 23:36                     ` David Ahern
2014-10-24  3:45                 ` David Ahern
2014-10-25 20:11                 ` David Miller
2014-10-23 14:46           ` [RFC] tcp md5 use of alloc_percpu Crestez Dan Leonard
2014-10-23 13:03       ` Crestez Dan Leonard

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