Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:35 AM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Eric Biggers pointed out that the orinoco driver pointed scatterlists >>> at the stack. >>> >>> Fix it by switching from ahash to shash. The result should be >>> simpler, faster, and more correct. >>> >>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.9 only >>> Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx> >>> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> "more correct"? Does this fix a real user visible bug or what? And why >> just stable 4.9, does this maybe have something to do with >> CONFIG_VMAP_STACK? > > Whoops, I had that text in some other patches but forgot to put it in > this one. It'll blow up with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y if a debug option > like CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y is set. It may work by accident if > debugging is off. Makes sense now, thanks. I'll add that to the commit log and queue this to 4.10. -- Kalle Valo -- 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
