Re: [PATCH] CRYPTO: ablkcipher, avoid NULL dereference

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 01:44:52PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:01:23 +0200
> 
> > Stanse found a potential NULL dereference in ablkcipher_next_slow.
> > Even though kmalloc fails, its retval is dereferenced later. Return
> > from that function properly earlier.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks for fixing this:
> 
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to crypt-2.6.

Thanks!
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