Patch "crypto: qat - don't use userspace pointer" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree

Patch "crypto: qat - don't use userspace pointer" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    crypto: qat - don't use userspace pointer

to the 4.3-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-qat-don-t-use-userspace-pointer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 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 176155dac13f528e0a58c14dc322623219365d91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:57:09 -0700
Subject: crypto: qat - don't use userspace pointer

From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>

commit 176155dac13f528e0a58c14dc322623219365d91 upstream.

Bugfix - don't dereference userspace pointer.

Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/adf_ctl_drv.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/adf_ctl_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/adf_ctl_drv.c
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static int adf_copy_key_value_data(struc
 			goto out_err;
 		}
 
-		params_head = section_head->params;
+		params_head = section.params;
 
 		while (params_head) {
 			if (copy_from_user(&key_val, (void __user *)params_head,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tadeusz.struk@intel.com are

queue-4.3/crypto-qat-don-t-use-userspace-pointer.patch