This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4 crypto: add missing locking for keyring_key access to the 4.4-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: ext4-crypto-add-missing-locking-for-keyring_key-access.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From db7730e3091a52c2fcd8fcc952b964d88998e675 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:57:58 -0500 Subject: ext4 crypto: add missing locking for keyring_key access From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> commit db7730e3091a52c2fcd8fcc952b964d88998e675 upstream. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/crypto_key.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ext4/crypto_key.c +++ b/fs/ext4/crypto_key.c @@ -213,9 +213,11 @@ retry: res = -ENOKEY; goto out; } + down_read(&keyring_key->sem); ukp = user_key_payload(keyring_key); if (ukp->datalen != sizeof(struct ext4_encryption_key)) { res = -EINVAL; + up_read(&keyring_key->sem); goto out; } master_key = (struct ext4_encryption_key *)ukp->data; @@ -226,10 +228,12 @@ retry: "ext4: key size incorrect: %d\n", master_key->size); res = -ENOKEY; + up_read(&keyring_key->sem); goto out; } res = ext4_derive_key_aes(ctx.nonce, master_key->raw, raw_key); + up_read(&keyring_key->sem); if (res) goto out; got_key: Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are queue-4.4/ext4-crypto-add-missing-locking-for-keyring_key-access.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html