From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
Mikhail Dmitrichenko <mdmitrichenko@astralinux.ru>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lvc-project@linuxtesting.org,
Muhammad Alifa Ramdhan <ramdhan@starlabs.sg>,
Bing-Jhong Billy Jheng <billy@starlabs.sg>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10/5.15] crypto: af_alg - Set merge to zero early in af_alg_sendmsg
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 20:38:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <stable-reply-af-alg-merge-20260701193800@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260701160121.100720-1-mdmitrichenko@astralinux.ru>
> If an error causes af_alg_sendmsg to abort, ctx->merge may contain
> a garbage value from the previous loop. This may then trigger a
> crash on the next entry into af_alg_sendmsg when it attempts to do
> a merge that can't be done.
>
> Fix this by setting ctx->merge to zero near the start of the loop.
Queued for 5.15.y and 5.10.y, thanks.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
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2026-07-01 16:01 [PATCH 5.10/5.15] crypto: af_alg - Set merge to zero early in af_alg_sendmsg Mikhail Dmitrichenko
2026-07-02 0:38 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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