Re: [patch 13/13] crypto: n2 - Replace racy task affinity logic

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:07:39PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> spu_queue_register() needs to invoke setup functions on a particular
> CPU. This is achieved by temporarily setting the affinity of the
> calling user space thread to the requested CPU and reset it to the original
> affinity afterwards.
> 
> That's racy vs. CPU hotplug and concurrent affinity settings for that
> thread resulting in code executing on the wrong CPU and overwriting the
> new affinity setting.
> 
> Replace it by using work_on_cpu_safe() which guarantees to run the code on
> the requested CPU or to fail in case the CPU is offline.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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