From: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 11:40:54 +0800

> On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 07:45:06PM -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
>>
>> > Usually if you're invoking setkey from a non-sleeping code-path
>> > you're probably doing something wrong.
>> 
>> Usually but not always. There are 3 calls to that function on SCTP
>> code:
>> - pack a cookie, which is sent on an INIT_ACK packet to the client
>> - unpack the cookie above, after it is sent back by the client on a
>>   COOKIE_ECHO packet
>> - send a chunk authenticated by a hash
> 
> I'm not talking about the code-path in question.  I'm talking
> about the function which generates the secret key in the first
> place.  AFAICS that's only called in GFP_KERNEL context.  What
> am I missing?

The setkey happens in functions like sctp_pack_cookie() and
sctp_unpack_cookie(), which seems to run from software interrupts.

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