Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 19 Jan 2015 06:34:29 -0800 | From | Tadeusz Struk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] crypto: aesni: add setkey for driver-gcm-aes-aesni |
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On 01/18/2015 02:56 PM, Stephan Mueller wrote: > The cipher registered as __driver-gcm-aes-aesni is never intended > to be used directly by any caller. Instead it is a service mechanism to > rfc4106-gcm-aesni. > > The kernel crypto API unconditionally calls the registered setkey > function. In case a caller erroneously uses __driver-gcm-aes-aesni a > call to crypto_aead_setkey will cause a NULL pointer dereference without > this patch.
Acked-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
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