Re: [PATCH] crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode

From: Herbert Xu

Date: Fri Dec 19 2025 - 02:04:15 EST


On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 03:01:57PM +0100, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> The local variable 'i' is initialized with -EINVAL, but the for loop
> immediately overwrites it and -EINVAL is never returned.
>
> If no empty compression mode can be found, the function would return the
> out-of-bounds index IAA_COMP_MODES_MAX, which would cause an invalid
> array access in add_iaa_compression_mode().
>
> Fix both issues by returning either a valid index or -EINVAL.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: b190447e0fa3 ("crypto: iaa - Add compression mode management along with fixed mode")
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/crypto/intel/iaa/iaa_crypto_main.c | 12 +++++-------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Patch applied. Thanks.
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