This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: ecc - Fix NULL pointer deref. on no default_rng
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-ecc-fix-null-pointer-deref.-on-no-default_rng.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 Fri Mar 16 15:43:17 CET 2018
From: Pierre pinaraf@pinaraf.info Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 15:24:32 +0100 Subject: crypto: ecc - Fix NULL pointer deref. on no default_rng
From: Pierre pinaraf@pinaraf.info
[ Upstream commit 4c0e22c90510308433272d7ba281b1eb4eda8209 ]
If crypto_get_default_rng returns an error, the function ecc_gen_privkey should return an error. Instead, it currently tries to use the default_rng nevertheless, thus creating a kernel panic with a NULL pointer dereference. Returning the error directly, as was supposedly intended when looking at the code, fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ducroquet pinaraf@pinaraf.info Reviewed-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- crypto/ecc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/crypto/ecc.c +++ b/crypto/ecc.c @@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ int ecc_gen_privkey(unsigned int curve_i * DRBG with a security strength of 256. */ if (crypto_get_default_rng()) - err = -EFAULT; + return -EFAULT;
err = crypto_rng_get_bytes(crypto_default_rng, (u8 *)priv, nbytes); crypto_put_default_rng();
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pinaraf@pinaraf.info are
queue-4.14/crypto-ecc-fix-null-pointer-deref.-on-no-default_rng.patch