Re: [PATCH] Potential NULL pointer deference in drbg_ctr_df

From: Fengguang Wu
Date: Fri Jul 04 2014 - 20:36:17 EST


On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 02:00:15AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2014, 13:50:03 schrieb Dan Carpenter:
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 05:06:46PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 02:26:29PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > > > The handling of additional input data / personalization string data may
> > > > be subject to a NULL pointer deference for the CTR DRBG. The
> > > > caller-provided data may be NULL which must be caught by the DRBG.
> > > >
> > > > Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Oh, huh. This bug was actually reported by me but I forgot to change
> > the from header and apparently my smtp server allows me to send emails
> > as if I work for Intel. :P
> >
> > Fengguang is much nicer than I am. :P
>
> Too late, your colleague's name is now in the patches ;-)

Thank you nice guys! :P

Thanks,
Fengguang
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