This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
PKCS#7: fix unitialized boolean 'want'
to the 4.4-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: pkcs-7-fix-unitialized-boolean-want.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 06aae592425701851e02bb850cb9f4997f0ae163 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 12:45:26 +0000 Subject: PKCS#7: fix unitialized boolean 'want'
From: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com
commit 06aae592425701851e02bb850cb9f4997f0ae163 upstream.
The boolean want is not initialized and hence garbage. The default should be false (later it is only set to true on tne sinfo->authattrs check).
Found with static analysis using CoverityScan
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com Signed-off-by: David Howells dhowells@redhat.com Cc: Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- crypto/asymmetric_keys/pkcs7_parser.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/pkcs7_parser.c +++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/pkcs7_parser.c @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pkcs7_free_message); static int pkcs7_check_authattrs(struct pkcs7_message *msg) { struct pkcs7_signed_info *sinfo; - bool want; + bool want = false;
sinfo = msg->signed_infos; if (!sinfo)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from colin.king@canonical.com are
queue-4.4/pkcs-7-fix-unitialized-boolean-want.patch