[V2][PATCH 1/2] PKCS#7: Fix kernel panic when referring to the empty AuthorityKeyIdentifier

Lans Zhang jia.zhang at windriver.com
Fri Jul 15 18:31:22 PDT 2016


On 07/15/2016 10:48 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Lans Zhang<jia.zhang at windriver.com>  wrote:
>
>> This fix resolves the following kernel panic if the empty
>> AuthorityKeyIdentifier employed.
>
> It should be noted that this is only an issue if DEBUG is #defined at the top
> of pkcs7_verify.c as the crash happens in a pr_debug() statement.
>

Yep and your previous analysis is correct.

Let me know if I need to add this comment to commit header.

Cheers,
Jia

> David
>




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