This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled crypto: cryptd - pass through absence of ->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-cryptd-pass-through-absence-of-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 841a3ff329713f796a63356fef6e2f72e4a3f6a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 11:16:23 -0800 Subject: crypto: cryptd - pass through absence of ->setkey() From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 841a3ff329713f796a63356fef6e2f72e4a3f6a3 upstream. When the cryptd template is used to wrap an unkeyed hash algorithm, don't install a ->setkey() method to the cryptd instance. This change is necessary for cryptd to keep working with unkeyed hash algorithms once we start enforcing that ->setkey() is called when present. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- crypto/cryptd.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/crypto/cryptd.c +++ b/crypto/cryptd.c @@ -691,7 +691,8 @@ static int cryptd_create_hash(struct cry inst->alg.finup = cryptd_hash_finup_enqueue; inst->alg.export = cryptd_hash_export; inst->alg.import = cryptd_hash_import; - inst->alg.setkey = cryptd_hash_setkey; + if (crypto_shash_alg_has_setkey(salg)) + inst->alg.setkey = cryptd_hash_setkey; inst->alg.digest = cryptd_hash_digest_enqueue; err = ahash_register_instance(tmpl, inst); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/crypto-cryptd-pass-through-absence-of-setkey.patch queue-4.9/crypto-hash-prevent-using-keyed-hashes-without-setting-key.patch queue-4.9/nfs-reject-request-for-id_legacy-key-without-auxdata.patch queue-4.9/crypto-poly1305-remove-setkey-method.patch queue-4.9/crypto-hash-introduce-crypto_hash_alg_has_setkey.patch queue-4.9/crypto-mcryptd-pass-through-absence-of-setkey.patch