This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: caam - Fix null dereference at error path
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-caam-fix-null-dereference-at-error-path.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 b85149f6f5d5a9279f29a73b2e95342f4d465e73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rui Miguel Silva <rui.silva@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:22:47 +0000
Subject: crypto: caam - Fix null dereference at error path
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From: Rui Miguel Silva <rui.silva@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit b85149f6f5d5a9279f29a73b2e95342f4d465e73 upstream.
caam_remove already removes the debugfs entry, so we need to remove the one
immediately before calling caam_remove.
This fix a NULL dereference at error paths is caam_probe fail.
Fixes: 67c2315def06 ("crypto: caam - add Queue Interface (QI) backend support")
Tested-by: Ryan Harkin <ryan.harkin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Horia Geantă" <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Aymen Sghaier <aymen.sghaier@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lukas Auer <lukas.auer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.12+
Reviewed-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rui Miguel Silva <rui.silva@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/crypto/caam/ctrl.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/crypto/caam/ctrl.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/caam/ctrl.c
@@ -813,9 +813,6 @@ static int caam_probe(struct platform_de
return 0;
caam_remove:
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
- debugfs_remove_recursive(ctrlpriv->dfs_root);
-#endif
caam_remove(pdev);
return ret;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rui.silva@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/crypto-caam-fix-null-dereference-at-error-path.patch