From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754189AbYHVPLT (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:11:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752214AbYHVPLK (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:11:10 -0400 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:56449 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752012AbYHVPLJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:11:09 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:11:02 +1000 From: Herbert Xu To: Linus Torvalds , "David S. Miller" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Crypto Mailing List Subject: Re: Crypto Fixes for 2.6.27 Message-ID: <20080822151102.GA678@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20080501102812.GA7151@gondor.apana.org.au> <20080727063659.GA936@gondor.apana.org.au> <20080813121620.GA23142@gondor.apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080813121620.GA23142@gondor.apana.org.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Linus: This push fixes a serious bug that was introduced in 2.6.25. It causes IPsec users that employ MAC algorithms with a length longer than 16 bytes to crash. The standard SHA1 algorithm is exactly 16 bytes long, so this only applies to those using longer algorithms such as SHA256. Please pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6.git or master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6.git Herbert Xu (1): crypto: authenc - Avoid using clobbered request pointer crypto/authenc.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Thanks, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt