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From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: pcrypt - Fix use after free on padata_free
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:54:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101126085412.GA4178@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101126084915.GA27272@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 04:49:15PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 08:49:17AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> > kobject_put is called from padata_free for the padata kobject.
> > The kobject's release function frees the padata instance,
> > so don't call kobject_put for the padata kobject from pcrypt.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
> > Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> 
> Linus has already taken this patch.
> 

Ok, I applied it on top of crypto-2.6. So I did not notice that it
is already in Linus tree.

Steffen

      reply	other threads:[~2010-11-26  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-26  7:49 [PATCH] crypto: pcrypt - Fix use after free on padata_free Steffen Klassert
2010-11-26  8:49 ` Herbert Xu
2010-11-26  8:54   ` Steffen Klassert [this message]

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