On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 11:46:31AM -0800, Tim Chen wrote: > Algorithms not compatible with mcryptd could be spawned by mcryptd > with a direct crypto_alloc_tfm invocation using a "mcryptd(alg)" name > construct. This causes mcryptd to crash the kernel if an arbitrary > "alg" is incompatible and not intended to be used with mcryptd. It is > an issue if AF_ALG tries to spawn mcryptd(alg) to expose it externally. > But such algorithms must be used internally and not be exposed. > > We added a check to enforce that only internal algorithms are allowed > with mcryptd at the time mcryptd is spawning an algorithm. > > Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-crypto-vger&m=148063683310477&w=2 > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Patch applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
