This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled PKCS#7: fix unitialized boolean 'want' 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: pkcs-7-fix-unitialized-boolean-want.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 06aae592425701851e02bb850cb9f4997f0ae163 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 12:45:26 +0000 Subject: PKCS#7: fix unitialized boolean 'want' From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 06aae592425701851e02bb850cb9f4997f0ae163 upstream. The boolean want is not initialized and hence garbage. The default should be false (later it is only set to true on tne sinfo->authattrs check). Found with static analysis using CoverityScan Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- crypto/asymmetric_keys/pkcs7_parser.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/pkcs7_parser.c +++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/pkcs7_parser.c @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pkcs7_free_message); static int pkcs7_check_authattrs(struct pkcs7_message *msg) { struct pkcs7_signed_info *sinfo; - bool want; + bool want = false; sinfo = msg->signed_infos; if (!sinfo) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/pkcs-7-fix-unitialized-boolean-want.patch