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Patch "tls: Use kzalloc for aead_request allocation" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

tls: Use kzalloc for aead_request allocation

to the 4.14-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:
tls-use-kzalloc-for-aead_request-allocation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

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

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From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 10:32:42 CET 2017

From: Ilya Lesokhin <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:22:44 +0200
Subject: tls: Use kzalloc for aead_request allocation

From: Ilya Lesokhin <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 61ef6da622aa7b66bf92991bd272490eea6c712e ]

Use kzalloc for aead_request allocation as
we don't set all the bits in the request.

Fixes 3c4d7559159b ('tls: kernel TLS support')
---
 net/tls/tls_sw.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
net/tls/tls_sw.c +1 -1
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static int tls_do_encryption(struct tls_
 	struct aead_request *aead_req;
 	int rc;
 
-	aead_req = kmalloc(req_size, flags);
+	aead_req = kzalloc(req_size, flags);
 	if (!aead_req)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 

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

queue-4.14/tls-use-kzalloc-for-aead_request-allocation.patch