This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Bluetooth: Fix authentication check for FIPS security level to the 3.15-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: bluetooth-fix-authentication-check-for-fips-security-level.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7e3691e13ab51f3491e996e2edaf99b173621288 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 14:45:19 +0300 Subject: Bluetooth: Fix authentication check for FIPS security level From: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx> commit 7e3691e13ab51f3491e996e2edaf99b173621288 upstream. When checking whether we need to request authentication or not we should include HCI_SECURITY_FIPS to the levels that always need authentication. This patch fixes check for it in the hci_outgoing_auth_needed() function. Signed-off-by: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c @@ -1342,6 +1342,7 @@ static int hci_outgoing_auth_needed(stru * is requested. */ if (!hci_conn_ssp_enabled(conn) && !(conn->auth_type & 0x01) && + conn->pending_sec_level != BT_SECURITY_FIPS && conn->pending_sec_level != BT_SECURITY_HIGH && conn->pending_sec_level != BT_SECURITY_MEDIUM) return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.15/bluetooth-fix-authentication-check-for-fips-security-level.patch queue-3.15/bluetooth-fix-missing-check-for-fips-security-level.patch queue-3.15/bluetooth-fix-l2cap-deadlock.patch queue-3.15/bluetooth-fix-requiring-smp-mitm-for-outgoing-connections.patch -- 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