This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled crypto: keywrap - memzero the correct memory to the 4.5-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-keywrap-memzero-the-correct-memory.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2b8b28fd232233c22fb61009dd8b0587390d2875 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 17:38:28 +0300 Subject: crypto: keywrap - memzero the correct memory From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 2b8b28fd232233c22fb61009dd8b0587390d2875 upstream. We're clearing the wrong memory. The memory corruption is likely harmless because we weren't going to use that stack memory again but not zeroing is a potential information leak. Fixes: e28facde3c39 ('crypto: keywrap - add key wrapping block chaining mode') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- crypto/keywrap.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/crypto/keywrap.c +++ b/crypto/keywrap.c @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ static int crypto_kw_decrypt(struct blkc SEMIBSIZE)) ret = -EBADMSG; - memzero_explicit(&block, sizeof(struct crypto_kw_block)); + memzero_explicit(block, sizeof(struct crypto_kw_block)); return ret; } @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ static int crypto_kw_encrypt(struct blkc /* establish the IV for the caller to pick up */ memcpy(desc->info, block->A, SEMIBSIZE); - memzero_explicit(&block, sizeof(struct crypto_kw_block)); + memzero_explicit(block, sizeof(struct crypto_kw_block)); return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.5/ncr5380-correctly-clear-command-pointers-and-lists-after-bus-reset.patch queue-4.5/crypto-keywrap-memzero-the-correct-memory.patch queue-4.5/edac-amd64_edac-shift-wrapping-issue-in-f1x_get_norm_dct_addr.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