On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 5:34:30 PM CET you wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 03:24:32PM +0100, Pierre Ducroquet wrote:
> > If crypto_get_default_rng returns an error, the
> > function ecc_gen_privkey should return an error.
> > Instead, it currently tries to use the default_rng
> > nevertheless, thus creating a kernel panic with a
> > NULL pointer dereference.
> > Returning the error directly, as was supposedly
> > intended when looking at the code, fixes this.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pierre Ducroquet <pina...@pinaraf.info>
> 
> Patch applied.  Thanks.

Thanks to you.

Will it be backported to 4.14 and the LTS releases ? Currently, no recent 
debian kernel can boot on my system without that patch (I don't know why 
nobody else noticed that before).

 Pierre

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