On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:42:40PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> This bug has already bee fixed upstream since 4.2. However, it
> was fixed during the AEAD conversion so no fix was backported to
> the older kernels.
What was the commit id of that fix?
>
> When we do an RFC 4543 decryption, we will end up writing the
> ICV beyond the end of the dst buffer. This should lead to a
> crash but for some reason it was never noticed.
>
> This patch fixes it by only writing back the ICV for encryption.
>
> Fixes: d733ac90f9fe ("crypto: gcm - fix rfc4543 to handle async...")
> Reported-by: Patrick Meyer <patrick.me...@vasgard.com>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au>
What stable kernel(s) do you want this in?
thanks,
greg k-h
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