[Regression] "SUNRPC: Add "@len" parameter to gss_unwrap()" breaks NFS Kerberos on upstream stable 5.4.y

From: Kai-Heng Feng
Date: Wed Jul 15 2020 - 10:48:20 EST

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Hi,

Multiple users reported NFS causes NULL pointer dereference [1] on Ubuntu, due to commit "SUNRPC: Add "@len" parameter to gss_unwrap()" and commit "SUNRPC: Fix GSS privacy computation of auth->au_ralign".

The same issue happens on upstream stable 5.4.y branch.
The mainline kernel doesn't have this issue though.

Should we revert them? Or is there any missing commits need to be backported to v5.4?

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1886277

Kai-Heng

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