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Patch "wusbcore: Fix one more crypto-on-the-stack bug" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

wusbcore: Fix one more crypto-on-the-stack bug

to the 4.9-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:
wusbcore-fix-one-more-crypto-on-the-stack-bug.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 620f1a632ebcc9811c2f8009ba52297c7006f805 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:50:13 -0800
Subject: wusbcore: Fix one more crypto-on-the-stack bug

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>

commit 620f1a632ebcc9811c2f8009ba52297c7006f805 upstream.

The driver put a constant buffer of all zeros on the stack and pointed a scatterlist entry at it. This doesn't work with virtual stacks. Use ZERO_PAGE instead.

---
 drivers/usb/wusbcore/crypto.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/usb/wusbcore/crypto.c +1 -2
@@ -216,7 +216,6 @@ static int wusb_ccm_mac(struct crypto_sk
 	struct scatterlist sg[4], sg_dst;
 	void *dst_buf;
 	size_t dst_size;
-	const u8 bzero[16] = { 0 };
 	u8 iv[crypto_skcipher_ivsize(tfm_cbc)];
 	size_t zero_padding;
 
@@ -261,7 +260,7 @@ static int wusb_ccm_mac(struct crypto_sk
 	sg_set_buf(&sg[1], &scratch->b1, sizeof(scratch->b1));
 	sg_set_buf(&sg[2], b, blen);
 	/* 0 if well behaved :) */
-	sg_set_buf(&sg[3], bzero, zero_padding);
+	sg_set_page(&sg[3], ZERO_PAGE(0), zero_padding, 0);
 	sg_init_one(&sg_dst, dst_buf, dst_size);
 
 	skcipher_request_set_tfm(req, tfm_cbc);

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

queue-4.9/x86-cpu-amd-fix-bulldozer-topology.patch queue-4.9/wusbcore-fix-one-more-crypto-on-the-stack-bug.patch