This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: ecc - Fix NULL pointer deref. on no default_rng
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:
crypto-ecc-fix-null-pointer-deref.-on-no-default_rng.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 Fri Mar 16 15:43:17 CET 2018
From: Pierre <pinaraf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 15:24:32 +0100
Subject: crypto: ecc - Fix NULL pointer deref. on no default_rng
From: Pierre <pinaraf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 4c0e22c90510308433272d7ba281b1eb4eda8209 ]
If crypto_get_default_rng returns an error, the
function ecc_gen_privkey should return an error.
Instead, it currently tries to use the default_rng
nevertheless, thus creating a kernel panic with a
NULL pointer dereference.
Returning the error directly, as was supposedly
intended when looking at the code, fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ducroquet <pinaraf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
crypto/ecc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/crypto/ecc.c
+++ b/crypto/ecc.c
@@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ int ecc_gen_privkey(unsigned int curve_i
* DRBG with a security strength of 256.
*/
if (crypto_get_default_rng())
- err = -EFAULT;
+ return -EFAULT;
err = crypto_rng_get_bytes(crypto_default_rng, (u8 *)priv, nbytes);
crypto_put_default_rng();
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pinaraf@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/crypto-ecc-fix-null-pointer-deref.-on-no-default_rng.patch