This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

crypto: inside-secure - free requests even if their handling failed

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-inside-secure-free-requests-even-if-their-handling-failed.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 Wed Feb 28 16:23:28 CET 2018

From: "Antoine Ténart" antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:10:56 +0100 Subject: crypto: inside-secure - free requests even if their handling failed

From: "Antoine Ténart" antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com

[ Upstream commit 0a02dcca126280595950f3ea809f77c9cb0a235c ]

This patch frees the request private data even if its handling failed, as it would never be freed otherwise.

Fixes: 1b44c5a60c13 ("crypto: inside-secure - add SafeXcel EIP197 crypto engine driver") Suggested-by: Ofer Heifetz oferh@marvell.com Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.c @@ -607,6 +607,7 @@ static inline void safexcel_handle_resul ndesc = ctx->handle_result(priv, ring, sreq->req, &should_complete, &ret); if (ndesc < 0) { + kfree(sreq); dev_err(priv->dev, "failed to handle result (%d)", ndesc); return; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com are

queue-4.14/crypto-inside-secure-per-request-invalidation.patch queue-4.14/crypto-inside-secure-fix-request-allocations-in-invalidation-path.patch queue-4.14/crypto-inside-secure-free-requests-even-if-their-handling-failed.patch