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Patch "crypto: ghash-clmulni: specify context size for ghash async algorithm" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

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

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

to the 3.10-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-ghash-clmulni-specify-context-size-for-ghash-async-algorithm.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 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 71c6da846be478a61556717ef1ee1cea91f5d6a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 14:32:01 +0300
Subject: crypto: ghash-clmulni: specify context size for ghash async algorithm

From: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>

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.

---
 arch/x86/crypto/ghash-clmulni-intel_glue.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
arch/x86/crypto/ghash-clmulni-intel_glue.c +1 -0
@@ -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,

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

queue-3.10/crypto-ghash-clmulni-specify-context-size-for-ghash-async-algorithm.patch