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Re: [PATCH] orinoco: Use shash instead of ahash for MIC calculations

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Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> writes:

> Eric Biggers pointed out that the orinoco driver pointed scatterlists
> at the stack.
>
> Fix it by switching from ahash to shash.  The result should be
> simpler, faster, and more correct.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.9 only
> Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

"more correct"? Does this fix a real user visible bug or what? And why
just stable 4.9, does this maybe have something to do with
CONFIG_VMAP_STACK?

I'm just wondering should I push this to 4.10 or -next. This is a driver
for ancient hardware so I'm starting to lean for -next.

-- 
Kalle Valo

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[PATCH] wusbcore: Fix one more crypto-on-the-stack bug Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-12-12 22:00 +0100
  [PATCH] keys/encrypted: Fix two crypto-on-the-stack bugs Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-12-12 22:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] keys/encrypted: Fix two crypto-on-the-stack bugs David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-12 23:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] keys/encrypted: Fix two crypto-on-the-stack bugs Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-12-13 01:40 +0100
    RE: [PATCH] keys/encrypted: Fix two crypto-on-the-stack bugs David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> - 2016-12-13 13:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] keys/encrypted: Fix two crypto-on-the-stack bugs David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-13 17:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] keys/encrypted: Fix two crypto-on-the-stack bugs Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-12-13 18:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] keys/encrypted: Fix two crypto-on-the-stack bugs David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-13 21:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] keys/encrypted: Fix two crypto-on-the-stack bugs Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-12-13 17:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] keys/encrypted: Fix two crypto-on-the-stack bugs Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> - 2016-12-14 18:00 +0100
  [PATCH] crypto: Make a few drivers depend on !VMAP_STACK Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-12-12 22:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] crypto: Make a few drivers depend on !VMAP_STACK Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-12-13 04:50 +0100
  [PATCH] orinoco: Use shash instead of ahash for MIC calculations Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-12-12 22:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] orinoco: Use shash instead of ahash for MIC calculations Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 09:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] orinoco: Use shash instead of ahash for MIC calculations Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2016-12-13 12:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] orinoco: Use shash instead of ahash for MIC calculations Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-12-13 17:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] orinoco: Use shash instead of ahash for MIC calculations Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2016-12-13 18:10 +0100
    Re: orinoco: Use shash instead of ahash for MIC calculations Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2016-12-30 12:40 +0100
      Re: orinoco: Use shash instead of ahash for MIC calculations Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2016-12-30 13:10 +0100
        Re: orinoco: Use shash instead of ahash for MIC calculations Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com> - 2016-12-30 13:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] wusbcore: Fix one more crypto-on-the-stack bug Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-12 22:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] wusbcore: Fix one more crypto-on-the-stack bug Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-12-13 01:00 +0100

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