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

    KEYS: Fix stale key registration at error path

to the 3.17-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:
     keys-fix-stale-key-registration-at-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From b26bdde5bb27f3f900e25a95e33a0c476c8c2c48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 18:25:19 +0100
Subject: KEYS: Fix stale key registration at error path

From: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>

commit b26bdde5bb27f3f900e25a95e33a0c476c8c2c48 upstream.

When loading encrypted-keys module, if the last check of
aes_get_sizes() in init_encrypted() fails, the driver just returns an
error without unregistering its key type.  This results in the stale
entry in the list.  In addition to memory leaks, this leads to a kernel
crash when registering a new key type later.

This patch fixes the problem by swapping the calls of aes_get_sizes()
and register_key_type(), and releasing resources properly at the error
paths.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=908163
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
+++ b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
@@ -1018,10 +1018,13 @@ static int __init init_encrypted(void)
        ret = encrypted_shash_alloc();
        if (ret < 0)
                return ret;
+       ret = aes_get_sizes();
+       if (ret < 0)
+               goto out;
        ret = register_key_type(&key_type_encrypted);
        if (ret < 0)
                goto out;
-       return aes_get_sizes();
+       return 0;
 out:
        encrypted_shash_release();
        return ret;


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

queue-3.17/keys-fix-stale-key-registration-at-error-path.patch
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