WTF: patch "[PATCH] fscrypto: don't use on-stack buffer for filename encryption" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.8-stable tree?

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.8-stable tree.

I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.

I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to 
<stable@vger.kernel.org> and let me know why this patch should be
applied.  Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
seen again.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 3c7018ebf8dbf14e7cd4f5dc648c51fc979f45bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 20:35:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fscrypto: don't use on-stack buffer for filename encryption

With the new (in 4.9) option to use a virtually-mapped stack
(CONFIG_VMAP_STACK), stack buffers cannot be used as input/output for
the scatterlist crypto API because they may not be directly mappable to
struct page.  For short filenames, fname_encrypt() was encrypting a
stack buffer holding the padded filename.  Fix it by encrypting the
filename in-place in the output buffer, thereby making the temporary
buffer unnecessary.

This bug could most easily be observed in a CONFIG_DEBUG_SG kernel
because this allowed the BUG in sg_set_buf() to be triggered.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

diff --git a/fs/crypto/fname.c b/fs/crypto/fname.c
index 9a28133ac3b8..9b774f4b50c8 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/fname.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/fname.c
@@ -39,65 +39,54 @@ static void fname_crypt_complete(struct crypto_async_request *req, int res)
 static int fname_encrypt(struct inode *inode,
 			const struct qstr *iname, struct fscrypt_str *oname)
 {
-	u32 ciphertext_len;
 	struct skcipher_request *req = NULL;
 	DECLARE_FS_COMPLETION_RESULT(ecr);
 	struct fscrypt_info *ci = inode->i_crypt_info;
 	struct crypto_skcipher *tfm = ci->ci_ctfm;
 	int res = 0;
 	char iv[FS_CRYPTO_BLOCK_SIZE];
-	struct scatterlist src_sg, dst_sg;
+	struct scatterlist sg;
 	int padding = 4 << (ci->ci_flags & FS_POLICY_FLAGS_PAD_MASK);
-	char *workbuf, buf[32], *alloc_buf = NULL;
-	unsigned lim;
+	unsigned int lim;
+	unsigned int cryptlen;
 
 	lim = inode->i_sb->s_cop->max_namelen(inode);
 	if (iname->len <= 0 || iname->len > lim)
 		return -EIO;
 
-	ciphertext_len = max(iname->len, (u32)FS_CRYPTO_BLOCK_SIZE);
-	ciphertext_len = round_up(ciphertext_len, padding);
-	ciphertext_len = min(ciphertext_len, lim);
+	/*
+	 * Copy the filename to the output buffer for encrypting in-place and
+	 * pad it with the needed number of NUL bytes.
+	 */
+	cryptlen = max_t(unsigned int, iname->len, FS_CRYPTO_BLOCK_SIZE);
+	cryptlen = round_up(cryptlen, padding);
+	cryptlen = min(cryptlen, lim);
+	memcpy(oname->name, iname->name, iname->len);
+	memset(oname->name + iname->len, 0, cryptlen - iname->len);
 
-	if (ciphertext_len <= sizeof(buf)) {
-		workbuf = buf;
-	} else {
-		alloc_buf = kmalloc(ciphertext_len, GFP_NOFS);
-		if (!alloc_buf)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-		workbuf = alloc_buf;
-	}
+	/* Initialize the IV */
+	memset(iv, 0, FS_CRYPTO_BLOCK_SIZE);
 
-	/* Allocate request */
+	/* Set up the encryption request */
 	req = skcipher_request_alloc(tfm, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!req) {
 		printk_ratelimited(KERN_ERR
-			"%s: crypto_request_alloc() failed\n", __func__);
-		kfree(alloc_buf);
+			"%s: skcipher_request_alloc() failed\n", __func__);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 	skcipher_request_set_callback(req,
 			CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG | CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP,
 			fname_crypt_complete, &ecr);
+	sg_init_one(&sg, oname->name, cryptlen);
+	skcipher_request_set_crypt(req, &sg, &sg, cryptlen, iv);
 
-	/* Copy the input */
-	memcpy(workbuf, iname->name, iname->len);
-	if (iname->len < ciphertext_len)
-		memset(workbuf + iname->len, 0, ciphertext_len - iname->len);
-
-	/* Initialize IV */
-	memset(iv, 0, FS_CRYPTO_BLOCK_SIZE);
-
-	/* Create encryption request */
-	sg_init_one(&src_sg, workbuf, ciphertext_len);
-	sg_init_one(&dst_sg, oname->name, ciphertext_len);
-	skcipher_request_set_crypt(req, &src_sg, &dst_sg, ciphertext_len, iv);
+	/* Do the encryption */
 	res = crypto_skcipher_encrypt(req);
 	if (res == -EINPROGRESS || res == -EBUSY) {
+		/* Request is being completed asynchronously; wait for it */
 		wait_for_completion(&ecr.completion);
 		res = ecr.res;
 	}
-	kfree(alloc_buf);
 	skcipher_request_free(req);
 	if (res < 0) {
 		printk_ratelimited(KERN_ERR
@@ -105,7 +94,7 @@ static int fname_encrypt(struct inode *inode,
 		return res;
 	}
 
-	oname->len = ciphertext_len;
+	oname->len = cryptlen;
 	return 0;
 }