This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: caam - Fix null dereference at error path
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-caam-fix-null-dereference-at-error-path.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 b85149f6f5d5a9279f29a73b2e95342f4d465e73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rui Miguel Silva rui.silva@linaro.org Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:22:47 +0000 Subject: crypto: caam - Fix null dereference at error path MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
From: Rui Miguel Silva rui.silva@linaro.org
commit b85149f6f5d5a9279f29a73b2e95342f4d465e73 upstream.
caam_remove already removes the debugfs entry, so we need to remove the one immediately before calling caam_remove.
This fix a NULL dereference at error paths is caam_probe fail.
Fixes: 67c2315def06 ("crypto: caam - add Queue Interface (QI) backend support")
Tested-by: Ryan Harkin ryan.harkin@linaro.org Cc: "Horia Geantă" horia.geanta@nxp.com Cc: Aymen Sghaier aymen.sghaier@nxp.com Cc: Fabio Estevam fabio.estevam@nxp.com Cc: Peng Fan peng.fan@nxp.com Cc: "David S. Miller" davem@davemloft.net Cc: Lukas Auer lukas.auer@aisec.fraunhofer.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.12+ Reviewed-by: Horia Geantă horia.geanta@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Rui Miguel Silva rui.silva@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- drivers/crypto/caam/ctrl.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/crypto/caam/ctrl.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/caam/ctrl.c @@ -813,9 +813,6 @@ static int caam_probe(struct platform_de return 0;
caam_remove: -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS - debugfs_remove_recursive(ctrlpriv->dfs_root); -#endif caam_remove(pdev); return ret;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rui.silva@linaro.org are
queue-4.14/crypto-caam-fix-null-dereference-at-error-path.patch