This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: lrw - Fix an error handling path in 'create()'
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: crypto-lrw-fix-an-error-handling-path-in-create.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 Wed Dec 20 18:17:52 CET 2017
From: Christophe Jaillet christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 11:39:49 +0200 Subject: crypto: lrw - Fix an error handling path in 'create()'
From: Christophe Jaillet christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
[ Upstream commit 616129cc6e75fb4da6681c16c981fa82dfe5e4c7 ]
All error handling paths 'goto err_drop_spawn' except this one. In order to avoid some resources leak, we should do it as well here.
Fixes: 700cb3f5fe75 ("crypto: lrw - Convert to skcipher") Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- crypto/lrw.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/crypto/lrw.c +++ b/crypto/lrw.c @@ -610,8 +610,10 @@ static int create(struct crypto_template ecb_name[len - 1] = 0;
if (snprintf(inst->alg.base.cra_name, CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME, - "lrw(%s)", ecb_name) >= CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME) - return -ENAMETOOLONG; + "lrw(%s)", ecb_name) >= CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME) { + err = -ENAMETOOLONG; + goto err_drop_spawn; + } }
inst->alg.base.cra_flags = alg->base.cra_flags & CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr are
queue-4.14/crypto-lrw-fix-an-error-handling-path-in-create.patch queue-4.14/igb-check-memory-allocation-failure.patch