linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] lib/mpi: bug fixes and cleanup

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Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2016 14:10:57 +0100
From:	Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>,
	Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
	Andrzej Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@...el.com>,
	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] lib/mpi: bug fixes and cleanup

Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 01:31:21PM +0100, Nicolai Stange wrote:
>> The original v1 can be found here:
>> 
>>   http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1458237606-4954-1-git-send-email-nicstange@gmail.com
>> 
>> 
>> While v1 (hopefully) fixed some issues in mpi_write_sgl() and
>> mpi_read_buffer() introduced by
>>   commit 2d4d1eea540b ("lib/mpi: Add mpi sgl helpers") and by
>>   commit 9cbe21d8f89d ("lib/mpi: only require buffers as big as needed for
>>                         the integer"), 
>> I missed that there are some, including out-of-bounds buffer accesses,
>> in mpi_read_raw_from_sgl() as well.
>> 
>> Hence v2, which includes the original stuff from v1 plus my new fixes to
>> mpi_read_raw_from_sgl().
>> 
>> 
>> Applicable to linux-next-20160318.
>
> If you want these to go through the crypto tree please post them
> to linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org.

Thank you for your reply!

Actually I've been unsure where to send this since MAINTAINERS doesn't
say anything about lib/mpi/.

Nicolai