Am Donnerstag, 10. August 2017, 10:21:53 CEST schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert, > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:16:48AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > As now the AIO code path is updated, the bug that I was reporting last > > September allowing to crash the kernel via AF_ALG is fixed. > > > > As the patch is very invasive, I am not sure that patch set should be sent > > to stable. How do you propose we fix the crash bug in older kernels that > > are due to memory management problems in the AIO code path? > > Is it possible to create a minimal fix for the stable kernels? I think there is such patch already, see [1]. Your comment to that patch triggered my rewrite of the memory managment code. [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-crypto/msg21618.html Ciao Stephan
