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Patch "crypto: drbg - Fixes panic in wait_for_completion call" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

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

crypto: drbg - Fixes panic in wait_for_completion call

to the 4.12-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-drbg-fixes-panic-in-wait_for_completion-call.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 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 b61929c654f2e725644935737c4c1ea9c741e2f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Stephan Mueller <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 12:11:31 +0200
Subject: crypto: drbg - Fixes panic in wait_for_completion call

From: Stephan Mueller <[email protected]>

commit b61929c654f2e725644935737c4c1ea9c741e2f8 upstream.

Initialise ctr_completion variable before use.

---
 crypto/drbg.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
crypto/drbg.c +1 -0
@@ -1691,6 +1691,7 @@ static int drbg_init_sym_kernel(struct d
 		return PTR_ERR(sk_tfm);
 	}
 	drbg->ctr_handle = sk_tfm;
+	init_completion(&drbg->ctr_completion);
 
 	req = skcipher_request_alloc(sk_tfm, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!req) {

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

queue-4.12/crypto-drbg-fixes-panic-in-wait_for_completion-call.patch