Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: caam: Clear some memory in instantiate_rng()

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 07:59:30AM +0100, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> According to the comment at the end of the 'for' loop just a few lines
> below, it looks needed to clear 'desc'.
> 
> So it should also be cleared for the first iteration.
> 
> Move the memset() to the beginning of the loop to be safe.
> 
> Fixes: 281922a1d4f5 ("crypto: caam - add support for SEC v5.x RNG4")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1 --> v2:
>    - move the memset() instead of doing s/kmalloc/kzalloc/
>    - adding a Fixes tag
> 
> v1:
>    https://lore.kernel.org/all/16d6bf3bd7a6e96a8262fcd4680e3ccbb5a50478.1679355849.git.christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> For for loop has been introduceD in commit 1005bccd7a4a ("crypto: caam -
> enable instantiation of all RNG4 state handles"). But if 'desc' really
> needs to be cleared, the issue was there before (thus the Fixes tag in
> the commit log)
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/caam/ctrl.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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