Hi Greg, This patch is probably not needed in any of the stable branches, but if you do add it you'll need to also include a patch that changes the use of an sg_page to an sg_chain_ptr to prevent a BUG_ON when CONFIG_DEBUG_SG is enabled (http://marc.info/?l=linux-crypto-vger&m=138627061905651&w=2). Thanks, Tom -----Original Message----- From: Greg Kroah-Hartman [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 2:00 AM To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman; stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Lendacky, Thomas; Herbert Xu Subject: [PATCH 3.4 01/25] crypto: scatterwalk - Set the chain pointer indication bit 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx> commit 41da8b5adba77e22584f8b45f9641504fa885308 upstream. The scatterwalk_crypto_chain function invokes the scatterwalk_sg_chain function to chain two scatterlists, but the chain pointer indication bit is not set. When the resulting scatterlist is used, for example, by sg_nents to count the number of scatterlist entries, a segfault occurs because sg_nents does not follow the chain pointer to the chained scatterlist. Update scatterwalk_sg_chain to set the chain pointer indication bit as is done by the sg_chain function. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/crypto/scatterwalk.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/include/crypto/scatterwalk.h +++ b/include/crypto/scatterwalk.h @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ static inline void scatterwalk_sg_chain( { sg_set_page(&sg1[num - 1], (void *)sg2, 0, 0); sg1[num - 1].page_link &= ~0x02; + sg1[num - 1].page_link |= 0x01; } static inline struct scatterlist *scatterwalk_sg_next(struct scatterlist *sg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html