This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled crypto: talitos - fix Kernel Oops on hashing an empty file 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-talitos-fix-kernel-oops-on-hashing-an-empty-file.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 87a81dce53b1ea61acaeefa5191a0376a2d1d721 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: LEROY Christophe <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:09:59 +0100 Subject: crypto: talitos - fix Kernel Oops on hashing an empty file From: LEROY Christophe <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> commit 87a81dce53b1ea61acaeefa5191a0376a2d1d721 upstream. Performing the hash of an empty file leads to a kernel Oops [ 44.504600] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x0000000c [ 44.512819] Faulting instruction address: 0xc02d2be8 [ 44.524088] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] [ 44.529171] BE PREEMPT CMPC885 [ 44.532232] CPU: 0 PID: 491 Comm: md5sum Not tainted 4.15.0-rc8-00211-g3a968610b6ea #81 [ 44.540814] NIP: c02d2be8 LR: c02d2984 CTR: 00000000 [ 44.545812] REGS: c6813c90 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (4.15.0-rc8-00211-g3a968610b6ea) [ 44.554223] MSR: 00009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 48222822 XER: 20000000 [ 44.560855] DAR: 0000000c DSISR: c0000000 [ 44.560855] GPR00: c02d28fc c6813d40 c6828000 c646fa40 00000001 00000001 00000001 00000000 [ 44.560855] GPR08: 0000004c 00000000 c000bfcc 00000000 28222822 100280d4 00000000 10020008 [ 44.560855] GPR16: 00000000 00000020 00000000 00000000 10024008 00000000 c646f9f0 c6179a10 [ 44.560855] GPR24: 00000000 00000001 c62f0018 c6179a10 00000000 c6367a30 c62f0000 c646f9c0 [ 44.598542] NIP [c02d2be8] ahash_process_req+0x448/0x700 [ 44.603751] LR [c02d2984] ahash_process_req+0x1e4/0x700 [ 44.608868] Call Trace: [ 44.611329] [c6813d40] [c02d28fc] ahash_process_req+0x15c/0x700 (unreliable) [ 44.618302] [c6813d90] [c02060c4] hash_recvmsg+0x11c/0x210 [ 44.623716] [c6813db0] [c0331354] ___sys_recvmsg+0x98/0x138 [ 44.629226] [c6813eb0] [c03332c0] __sys_recvmsg+0x40/0x84 [ 44.634562] [c6813f10] [c03336c0] SyS_socketcall+0xb8/0x1d4 [ 44.640073] [c6813f40] [c000d1ac] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38 [ 44.645530] Instruction dump: [ 44.648465] 38c00001 7f63db78 4e800421 7c791b78 54690ffe 0f090000 80ff0190 2f870000 [ 44.656122] 40befe50 2f990001 409e0210 813f01bc <8129000c> b39e003a 7d29c214 913e003c This patch fixes that Oops by checking if src is NULL. Fixes: 6a1e8d14156d4 ("crypto: talitos - making mapping helpers more generic") Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/crypto/talitos.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/crypto/talitos.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/talitos.c @@ -1127,6 +1127,10 @@ int talitos_sg_map(struct device *dev, s to_talitos_ptr_len(ptr, len, is_sec1); to_talitos_ptr_ext_set(ptr, 0, is_sec1); + if (!src) { + to_talitos_ptr(ptr, 0, 0, is_sec1); + return 1; + } if (sg_count == 1) { to_talitos_ptr(ptr, sg_dma_address(src) + offset, is_sec1); return sg_count; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.leroy@xxxxxx are queue-4.9/crypto-talitos-fix-kernel-oops-on-hashing-an-empty-file.patch