This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dm crypt: fix error return code in crypt_ctr()
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: dm-crypt-fix-error-return-code-in-crypt_ctr.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 3cc2e57c4beabcbbaa46e1ac6d77ca8276a4a42d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:24:26 +0000 Subject: dm crypt: fix error return code in crypt_ctr()
From: Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com
commit 3cc2e57c4beabcbbaa46e1ac6d77ca8276a4a42d upstream.
Fix to return error code -ENOMEM from the mempool_create_kmalloc_pool() error handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.
Fixes: ef43aa38063a6 ("dm crypt: add cryptographic data integrity protection (authenticated encryption)") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer snitzer@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c @@ -2746,6 +2746,7 @@ static int crypt_ctr(struct dm_target *t cc->tag_pool_max_sectors * cc->on_disk_tag_size); if (!cc->tag_pool) { ti->error = "Cannot allocate integrity tags mempool"; + ret = -ENOMEM; goto bad; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from weiyongjun1@huawei.com are
queue-4.14/dm-crypt-fix-error-return-code-in-crypt_ctr.patch