From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:39958 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1162917AbeBNTel (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:34:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:34:42 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Eric Biggers Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, syzkaller@googlegroups.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch "crypto: hash - prevent using keyed hashes without setting key" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree Message-ID: <20180214193442.GA31775@kroah.com> References: <1518634738133174@kroah.com> <20180214191224.GB221549@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180214191224.GB221549@google.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:12:24AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 07:58:58PM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > crypto: hash - prevent using keyed hashes without setting key > > > > 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: > > crypto-hash-prevent-using-keyed-hashes-without-setting-key.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 know about it. > > Hi Greg, this patch needs some prerequisites including "crypto: hash - annotate > algorithms taking optional key". You got all the prerequisites for 4.14 and > 4.15 but not all applied to earlier kernels, so you should hold off on this for > 4.9 and earlier for now. (The prerequisites by themselves shouldn't break > anything though; only this final patch would.) Thanks, Ugh, yup, this broke the build :( I'll drop this from 4.9.y and if you could send a full set of patches for this kernel, that would be wonderful. Same for 3.18.y and 4.4.y if you were so inclined :) thanks, greg k-h