Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2016, 21:22:07 CET schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert, > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 08:22:37AM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > Hi Herbert, > > > > I split out the bug fix patch from the AD/tag formatting patch as they > > most likely will come after the next merge window. > > > > ---8<--- > > > > Handle the case when the caller provided a zero buffer to > > sendmsg/sendpage. Such scenario is legal for AEAD ciphers when no > > plaintext / ciphertext and no AAD is provided and the caller only > > requests the generation of the tag value. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Patch applied. Thanks. May I suggest to forward that patch to stable as this patch fixes a kernel crasher that can be triggered by an unprivileged user? The bug was introduced in 4.7 with the AEAD AIO addition. Ciao Stephan -- 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
