Patch "crypto: dh - fix memleak in setkey" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    crypto: dh - fix memleak in setkey

to the 4.9-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-dh-fix-memleak-in-setkey.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From ee34e2644a78e2561742bea8c4bdcf83cabf90a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tudor-Dan Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 10:18:07 +0300
Subject: crypto: dh - fix memleak in setkey

From: Tudor-Dan Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit ee34e2644a78e2561742bea8c4bdcf83cabf90a7 upstream.

setkey can be called multiple times during the existence
of the transformation object. In case of multiple setkey calls,
the old key was not freed and we leaked memory.
Free the old MPI key if any.

Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 crypto/dh.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/crypto/dh.c
+++ b/crypto/dh.c
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ static int dh_set_secret(struct crypto_k
 	struct dh_ctx *ctx = dh_get_ctx(tfm);
 	struct dh params;
 
+	/* Free the old MPI key if any */
+	dh_free_ctx(ctx);
+
 	if (crypto_dh_decode_key(buf, len, &params) < 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tudor.ambarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-4.9/crypto-dh-fix-memleak-in-setkey.patch
queue-4.9/crypto-dh-fix-double-free-of-ctx-p.patch