Re: Patch "crypto: hash - prevent using keyed hashes without setting key" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:12:24AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 07:58:58PM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     crypto: hash - prevent using keyed hashes without setting key
> > 
> > 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-hash-prevent-using-keyed-hashes-without-setting-key.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.
> 
> Hi Greg, this patch needs some prerequisites including "crypto: hash - annotate
> algorithms taking optional key".  You got all the prerequisites for 4.14 and
> 4.15 but not all applied to earlier kernels, so you should hold off on this for
> 4.9 and earlier for now.  (The prerequisites by themselves shouldn't break
> anything though; only this final patch would.)  Thanks,

Ugh, yup, this broke the build :(

I'll drop this from 4.9.y and if you could send a full set of patches
for this kernel, that would be wonderful.  Same for 3.18.y and 4.4.y if
you were so inclined :)

thanks,

greg k-h



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