From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [Bug 37862] padlock related kernel NULL pointer dereference Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:34:08 +0800 Message-ID: <20110728093408.GA5757@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <201107280920.p6S9KDhw003188@demeter1.kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Jethro Beekman - E.T.S.V. Scintilla" , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Suresh Siddha To: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from helcar.apana.org.au ([209.40.204.226]:48789 "EHLO fornost.hengli.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753630Ab1G1JeQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:34:16 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201107280920.p6S9KDhw003188@demeter1.kernel.org> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 09:20:13AM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37862 > > > > > > --- Comment #10 from Jethro Beekman 2011-07-28 09:20:13 --- > That is interesting, on > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.26.y.git;a=history;f=drivers/crypto > that particular patch is included but on > https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6/commits/v2.6.26/drivers/crypto > it isn't. > > Anyway, my distro's kernel source package has the patch applied. OK, it does seem that it was applied. Suresh, any ideas what might be wrong here? The crash looks eerily like the one that was fixed by your patch. > I will try to use the latest kernel, but in the very near future I won't be > able to test on that system. In that case, I will try to get a colleague > working on this. Please do. Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt