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