This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled crypto: x86/sha1-mb - fix panic due to unaligned access to the 3.18-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-x86-sha1-mb-fix-panic-due-to-unaligned-access.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d041b557792c85677f17e08eee535eafbd6b9aa2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:51:31 +0300 Subject: crypto: x86/sha1-mb - fix panic due to unaligned access From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit d041b557792c85677f17e08eee535eafbd6b9aa2 upstream. struct sha1_ctx_mgr allocated in sha1_mb_mod_init() via kzalloc() and later passed in sha1_mb_flusher_mgr_flush_avx2() function where instructions vmovdqa used to access the struct. vmovdqa requires 16-bytes aligned argument, but nothing guarantees that struct sha1_ctx_mgr will have that alignment. Unaligned vmovdqa will generate GP fault. Fix this by replacing vmovdqa with vmovdqu which doesn't have alignment requirements. Fixes: 2249cbb53ead ("crypto: sha-mb - SHA1 multibuffer submit and flush routines for AVX2") Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/crypto/sha-mb/sha1_mb_mgr_flush_avx2.S | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/crypto/sha-mb/sha1_mb_mgr_flush_avx2.S +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/sha-mb/sha1_mb_mgr_flush_avx2.S @@ -174,8 +174,8 @@ LABEL skip_ %I .endr # Find min length - vmovdqa _lens+0*16(state), %xmm0 - vmovdqa _lens+1*16(state), %xmm1 + vmovdqu _lens+0*16(state), %xmm0 + vmovdqu _lens+1*16(state), %xmm1 vpminud %xmm1, %xmm0, %xmm2 # xmm2 has {D,C,B,A} vpalignr $8, %xmm2, %xmm3, %xmm3 # xmm3 has {x,x,D,C} @@ -195,8 +195,8 @@ LABEL skip_ %I vpsubd %xmm2, %xmm0, %xmm0 vpsubd %xmm2, %xmm1, %xmm1 - vmovdqa %xmm0, _lens+0*16(state) - vmovdqa %xmm1, _lens+1*16(state) + vmovdqu %xmm0, _lens+0*16(state) + vmovdqu %xmm1, _lens+1*16(state) # "state" and "args" are the same address, arg1 # len is arg2 @@ -260,8 +260,8 @@ ENTRY(sha1_mb_mgr_get_comp_job_avx2) jc .return_null # Find min length - vmovdqa _lens(state), %xmm0 - vmovdqa _lens+1*16(state), %xmm1 + vmovdqu _lens(state), %xmm0 + vmovdqu _lens+1*16(state), %xmm1 vpminud %xmm1, %xmm0, %xmm2 # xmm2 has {D,C,B,A} vpalignr $8, %xmm2, %xmm3, %xmm3 # xmm3 has {x,x,D,C} Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/crypto-x86-sha1-mb-fix-panic-due-to-unaligned-access.patch