This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: qat - don't use userspace pointer
to the 4.3-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
crypto-qat-don-t-use-userspace-pointer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 176155dac13f528e0a58c14dc322623219365d91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:57:09 -0700
Subject: crypto: qat - don't use userspace pointer
From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 176155dac13f528e0a58c14dc322623219365d91 upstream.
Bugfix - don't dereference userspace pointer.
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/adf_ctl_drv.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/adf_ctl_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/adf_ctl_drv.c
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static int adf_copy_key_value_data(struc
goto out_err;
}
- params_head = section_head->params;
+ params_head = section.params;
while (params_head) {
if (copy_from_user(&key_val, (void __user *)params_head,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.3/crypto-qat-don-t-use-userspace-pointer.patch
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