[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "crypto: ghash-clmulni: specify context size for ghash async algorithm" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Sep 28 17:21:33 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    crypto: ghash-clmulni: specify context size for ghash async algorithm

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt18.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 49020b2427c74729591da9cb876bf753bc155cd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at odin.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 14:32:01 +0300
Subject: crypto: ghash-clmulni: specify context size for ghash async algorithm

commit 71c6da846be478a61556717ef1ee1cea91f5d6a8 upstream.

Currently context size (cra_ctxsize) doesn't specified for
ghash_async_alg. Which means it's zero. Thus crypto_create_tfm()
doesn't allocate needed space for ghash_async_ctx, so any
read/write to ctx (e.g. in ghash_async_init_tfm()) is not valid.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at odin.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/crypto/ghash-clmulni-intel_glue.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/ghash-clmulni-intel_glue.c b/arch/x86/crypto/ghash-clmulni-intel_glue.c
index 8253d85aa165..de1d72e3ec59 100644
--- a/arch/x86/crypto/ghash-clmulni-intel_glue.c
+++ b/arch/x86/crypto/ghash-clmulni-intel_glue.c
@@ -291,6 +291,7 @@ static struct ahash_alg ghash_async_alg = {
 			.cra_name		= "ghash",
 			.cra_driver_name	= "ghash-clmulni",
 			.cra_priority		= 400,
+			.cra_ctxsize		= sizeof(struct ghash_async_ctx),
 			.cra_flags		= CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_AHASH | CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC,
 			.cra_blocksize		= GHASH_BLOCK_SIZE,
 			.cra_type		= &crypto_ahash_type,




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