Re: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: af_alg - Make cbc(paes) privileged-only

Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.cryptoapi,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Eric Biggers" <[email protected]>
> An: "Linux Crypto Mailing List" <[email protected]>, "Herbert Xu" <[email protected]>
> CC: "richard" <[email protected]>, "linux-kernel" <[email protected]>, "Eric Biggers" <[email protected]>
> Gesendet: Montag, 3. August 2026 01:00:53
> Betreff: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: af_alg - Make cbc(paes) privileged-only

> So far the only reported use cases for cbc(paes) have involved processes
> running as root.  Therefore, make af_alg_restrict=1 allow only
> privileged use of this algorithm for now.
> 
> Fixes: 947d62c09436 ("Merge
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>

Good catch, my intention was making it privileged only. :-S

Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>

Thanks,
//richard
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.