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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jslaby@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CRYPTO: ablkcipher, avoid NULL dereference
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:01:55 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100623100155.GA32739@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100621.134452.39190078.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 01:44:52PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:01:23 +0200
> 
> > Stanse found a potential NULL dereference in ablkcipher_next_slow.
> > Even though kmalloc fails, its retval is dereferenced later. Return
> > from that function properly earlier.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> 
> Thanks for fixing this:
> 
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Patch applied to crypt-2.6.

Thanks!
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      reply	other threads:[~2010-06-23 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-21 15:01 Jiri Slaby
2010-06-21 20:44 ` David Miller
2010-06-23 10:01   ` Herbert Xu [this message]

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