Patch "X.509: Fix error code in x509_cert_parse()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    X.509: Fix error code in x509_cert_parse()

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x.509-fix-error-code-in-x509_cert_parse.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Apr  9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 14:47:49 +0100
Subject: X.509: Fix error code in x509_cert_parse()

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>


[ Upstream commit 4e880168e9ffb1cdbdb72b3b48ab0324b30c2d62 ]

We forgot to set the error code on this path so it could result in
returning NULL which leads to a NULL dereference.

Fixes: db6c43bd2132 ("crypto: KEYS: convert public key and digsig asym to the akcipher api")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c
+++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ struct x509_certificate *x509_cert_parse
 		}
 	}
 
+	ret = -ENOMEM;
 	cert->pub->key = kmemdup(ctx->key, ctx->key_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!cert->pub->key)
 		goto error_decode;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

queue-4.9/block-fix-an-error-code-in-add_partition.patch
queue-4.9/x.509-fix-error-code-in-x509_cert_parse.patch
queue-4.9/rdma-iw_cxgb4-avoid-touch-after-free-error-in-arp-failure-handlers.patch
queue-4.9/drm-amdkfd-null-dereference-involving-create_process.patch
queue-4.9/pnfs-flexfiles-missing-error-code-in-ff_layout_alloc_lseg.patch
queue-4.9/drivers-misc-vmw_vmci-vmci_queue_pair.c-fix-a-couple-integer-overflow-tests.patch
queue-4.9/cxl-unlock-on-error-in-probe.patch
queue-4.9/md-cluster-fix-potential-lock-issue-in-add_new_disk.patch
queue-4.9/ipmi_ssif-unlock-on-allocation-failure.patch
queue-4.9/powercap-fix-an-error-code-in-powercap_register_zone.patch
queue-4.9/perf-core-fix-error-handling-in-perf_event_alloc.patch
queue-4.9/libceph-null-deref-on-crush_decode-error-path.patch