linux-kernel - Re: crypto_memneq not backported to 3.10

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Date:   Mon, 1 May 2017 16:48:35 +0200
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        security@...nel.org
Subject: Re: crypto_memneq not backported to 3.10

Hi Jason,

On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 04:30:01PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > I'll check if the 3.12 patches above can be safely backported, and I'll
> > have to re-apply the missing part of the one that was trimmed down
> > (commit 620c411 ("crypto: more robust crypto_memneq")).
> 
> I'm vaguely wondering if you ever decided on backporting this. After I
> reported the issue to Ubiquiti -- a random vendor doing ipsec with
> 3.10 -- they actually released a backport of these functions in a
> security update for their stuff. So I imagine others might want this
> sort of thing too.

I'll do it. It just happens that I've been quite busy lately so
no new 3.10 was released since you reported this ~1 month ago. I'll
get back to this ASAP.

Thanks for the heads up,
Willy