Patch "tls: Use kzalloc for aead_request allocation" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

Patch "tls: Use kzalloc for aead_request allocation" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    tls: Use kzalloc for aead_request allocation

to the 4.14-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:
     tls-use-kzalloc-for-aead_request-allocation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 foo@baz Tue Dec 12 10:32:42 CET 2017
From: Ilya Lesokhin <ilyal@mellanox.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:22:44 +0200
Subject: tls: Use kzalloc for aead_request allocation

From: Ilya Lesokhin <ilyal@mellanox.com>


[ Upstream commit 61ef6da622aa7b66bf92991bd272490eea6c712e ]

Use kzalloc for aead_request allocation as
we don't set all the bits in the request.

Fixes: 3c4d7559159b ('tls: kernel TLS support')
Signed-off-by: Ilya Lesokhin <ilyal@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/tls/tls_sw.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/tls/tls_sw.c
+++ b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static int tls_do_encryption(struct tls_
 	struct aead_request *aead_req;
 	int rc;
 
-	aead_req = kmalloc(req_size, flags);
+	aead_req = kzalloc(req_size, flags);
 	if (!aead_req)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ilyal@mellanox.com are

queue-4.14/tls-use-kzalloc-for-aead_request-allocation.patch