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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -stable] arm: crypto: reduce priority of bit-sliced AES
 cipher
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:21:54 +0100
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On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 11:50:27AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like the following patch to be applied to stable for versions
> between 4.1 and 4.10 (inclusively).
> 
> This is a minimal fix for a bug where arm32 kernels can use a much
> slower implementation of AES than is actually available, potentially
> forcing vendors to disable encryption on their devices.
> 
> Min version is 4.1 because that was the first version to include the
> aes-ce algorithms.
> 
> Max version is 4.10 because in 4.11, this bug was fixed incidentally as
> part of a complete rewrite of the bit-sliced AES implementation.

Thanks for the patch, now queued up.

greg k-h