Re: crypto_memneq not backported to 3.10

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Mon May 01 2017 - 10:48:51 EST


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