This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tls: Use kzalloc for aead_request allocation to the 4.14-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: tls-use-kzalloc-for-aead_request-allocation.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 10:32:42 CET 2017 From: Ilya Lesokhin <ilyal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:22:44 +0200 Subject: tls: Use kzalloc for aead_request allocation From: Ilya Lesokhin <ilyal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 61ef6da622aa7b66bf92991bd272490eea6c712e ] Use kzalloc for aead_request allocation as we don't set all the bits in the request. Fixes: 3c4d7559159b ('tls: kernel TLS support') Signed-off-by: Ilya Lesokhin <ilyal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/tls/tls_sw.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/tls/tls_sw.c +++ b/net/tls/tls_sw.c @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static int tls_do_encryption(struct tls_ struct aead_request *aead_req; int rc; - aead_req = kmalloc(req_size, flags); + aead_req = kzalloc(req_size, flags); if (!aead_req) return -ENOMEM; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ilyal@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/tls-use-kzalloc-for-aead_request-allocation.patch