On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 5:34:30 PM CET you wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 03:24:32PM +0100, Pierre Ducroquet wrote: > > If crypto_get_default_rng returns an error, the > > function ecc_gen_privkey should return an error. > > Instead, it currently tries to use the default_rng > > nevertheless, thus creating a kernel panic with a > > NULL pointer dereference. > > Returning the error directly, as was supposedly > > intended when looking at the code, fixes this. > > > > Signed-off-by: Pierre Ducroquet <pinaraf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Patch applied. Thanks. Thanks to you. Will it be backported to 4.14 and the LTS releases ? Currently, no recent debian kernel can boot on my system without that patch (I don't know why nobody else noticed that before). Pierre
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