From: Pierre <pinaraf@pinaraf.info>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix NULL pointer deref. on no default_rng
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 11:32:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2556930.8tHcIEql08@peanuts2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171129063430.GD21575@gondor.apana.org.au>
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On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 5:34:30 PM CET you wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 03:24:32PM +0100, Pierre Ducroquet wrote:
> > If crypto_get_default_rng returns an error, the
> > function ecc_gen_privkey should return an error.
> > Instead, it currently tries to use the default_rng
> > nevertheless, thus creating a kernel panic with a
> > NULL pointer dereference.
> > Returning the error directly, as was supposedly
> > intended when looking at the code, fixes this.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pierre Ducroquet <pinaraf@pinaraf.info>
>
> Patch applied. Thanks.
Thanks to you.
Will it be backported to 4.14 and the LTS releases ? Currently, no recent
debian kernel can boot on my system without that patch (I don't know why
nobody else noticed that before).
Pierre
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-07 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-12 14:24 [PATCH] Fix NULL pointer deref. on no default_rng Pierre Ducroquet
2017-11-12 14:46 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2017-11-18 17:18 ` Pierre
2017-11-29 6:34 ` Herbert Xu
2017-12-07 10:32 ` Pierre [this message]
2017-12-20 19:49 ` Pierre
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