This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled crypto: caam - fix invalid dereference in caam_rsa_init_tfm() to the 4.10-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-caam-fix-invalid-dereference-in-caam_rsa_init_tfm.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 33fa46d7b310e06d2cb2ab5417c100af120bfb65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Horia=20Geant=C4=83?= <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 18:30:07 +0300 Subject: crypto: caam - fix invalid dereference in caam_rsa_init_tfm() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx> commit 33fa46d7b310e06d2cb2ab5417c100af120bfb65 upstream. In case caam_jr_alloc() fails, ctx->dev carries the error code, thus accessing it with dev_err() is incorrect. Fixes: 8c419778ab57e ("crypto: caam - add support for RSA algorithm") Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/crypto/caam/caampkc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/crypto/caam/caampkc.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/caam/caampkc.c @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ static int caam_rsa_init_tfm(struct cryp ctx->dev = caam_jr_alloc(); if (IS_ERR(ctx->dev)) { - dev_err(ctx->dev, "Job Ring Device allocation for transform failed\n"); + pr_err("Job Ring Device allocation for transform failed\n"); return PTR_ERR(ctx->dev); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from horia.geanta@xxxxxxx are queue-4.10/crypto-caam-fix-invalid-dereference-in-caam_rsa_init_tfm.patch queue-4.10/crypto-caam-fix-rng-deinstantiation-error-checking.patch