Patch "crypto: af_alg - Allow af_af_alg_release_parent to be called on nokey path" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

crypto: af_alg - Allow af_af_alg_release_parent to be called on nokey path

to the 4.4-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:
crypto-af_alg-allow-af_af_alg_release_parent-to-be-called-on-nokey-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:59:03 +0800
Subject: crypto: af_alg - Allow af_af_alg_release_parent to be called on nokey path

From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

commit 6a935170a980024dd29199e9dbb5c4da4767a1b9 upstream.

This patch allows af_alg_release_parent to be called even for nokey sockets.

---
 crypto/af_alg.c         |    9 ++++++++-
 include/crypto/if_alg.h |    1 +
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -133,6 +133,12 @@ void af_alg_release_parent(struct sock *
 	bool last;
 
 	sk = ask->parent;
+
+	if (ask->nokey_refcnt && !ask->refcnt) {
+		sock_put(sk);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	ask = alg_sk(sk);
 
 	lock_sock(sk);

@@ -268,8 +274,8 @@ int af_alg_accept(struct sock *sk, struc
 	struct alg_sock *ask = alg_sk(sk);
 	const struct af_alg_type *type;
 	struct sock *sk2;
+	unsigned int nokey;
 	int err;
-	bool nokey;
 
 	lock_sock(sk);
 	type = ask->type;

@@ -302,6 +308,7 @@ int af_alg_accept(struct sock *sk, struc
 		sock_hold(sk);
 	alg_sk(sk2)->parent = sk;
 	alg_sk(sk2)->type = type;
+	alg_sk(sk2)->nokey_refcnt = nokey;
 
 	newsock->ops = type->ops;
 	newsock->state = SS_CONNECTED;

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ struct alg_sock {
 	struct sock *parent;
 
 	unsigned int refcnt;
+	unsigned int nokey_refcnt;
 
 	const struct af_alg_type *type;
 	void *private;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/crypto-af_alg-disallow-bind-setkey-...-after-accept-2.patch queue-4.4/crypto-crc32c-fix-crc32c-soft-dependency.patch queue-4.4/crypto-af_alg-forbid-bind-2-when-nokey-child-sockets-are-present.patch queue-4.4/crypto-algif_hash-fix-race-condition-in-hash_check_key.patch queue-4.4/crypto-skcipher-add-crypto_skcipher_has_setkey.patch queue-4.4/crypto-chacha20-ssse3-align-stack-pointer-to-64-bytes.patch queue-4.4/crypto-algif_skcipher-add-key-check-exception-for-cipher_null.patch queue-4.4/crypto-algif_hash-remove-custom-release-parent-function.patch queue-4.4/crypto-algif_skcipher-load-tx-sg-list-after-waiting.patch queue-4.4/crypto-algif_skcipher-require-setkey-before-accept-2.patch queue-4.4/crypto-algif_skcipher-add-nokey-compatibility-path.patch queue-4.4/crypto-shash-fix-has_key-setting.patch queue-4.4/crypto-algif_skcipher-remove-custom-release-parent-function.patch queue-4.4/crypto-af_alg-allow-af_af_alg_release_parent-to-be-called-on-nokey-path.patch queue-4.4/crypto-hash-add-crypto_ahash_has_setkey.patch queue-4.4/crypto-af_alg-add-nokey-compatibility-path.patch queue-4.4/crypto-sun4i-ss-add-missing-statesize.patch queue-4.4/crypto-algif_hash-require-setkey-before-accept-2.patch queue-4.4/crypto-algif_skcipher-sendmsg-sg-marking-is-off-by-one.patch queue-4.4/crypto-algif_skcipher-fix-race-condition-in-skcipher_check_key.patch queue-4.4/crypto-caam-make-write-transactions-bufferable-on-ppc-platforms.patch queue-4.4/crypto-af_alg-fix-socket-double-free-when-accept-fails.patch