linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: drbg - set freed buffers to NULL

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Date:   Sat, 21 Apr 2018 00:54:55 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Stephan Müller <smueller@...onox.de>
Cc:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>,
        syzbot <syzbot+75397ee3df5c70164154@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: drbg - set freed buffers to NULL

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 08:40:55AM +0200, Stephan Müller wrote:
> Add the Fixes, CC stable tags.
> 
> ---8<---
> 
> During freeing of the internal buffers used by the DRBG, set the pointer
> to NULL. It is possible that the context with the freed buffers is
> reused. In case of an error during initialization where the pointers
> do not yet point to allocated memory, the NULL value prevents a double
> free.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: 3cfc3b9721123 ("crypto: drbg - use aligned buffers")
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
> Reported-by: syzbot+75397ee3df5c70164154@...kaller.appspotmail.com

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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