Re: stable request

Ard Biesheuvel
2021-03-16T10:18:35Z

On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 10:21, Thomas Backlund <tmb@tmb.nu> wrote:
>
> Den 16.3.2021 kl. 08:37, skrev Ard Biesheuvel:
> > Please consider backporting commit
> >
> > 86ad60a65f29dd862a11c22bb4b5be28d6c5cef1
> > crypto: x86/aes-ni-xts - use direct calls to and 4-way stride
> >
> > to stable. It addresses a rather substantial retpoline-related
> > performance regression in the AES-NI XTS code, which is a widely used
> > disk encryption algorithm on x86.
> >
>
> To get all the nice bits, we added the following in Mageia 5.10 / 5.11
> series kerenels (the 2 first is needed to get the third to apply/build
> nicely):
>

I will leave it up to the -stable maintainers to decide, but I will
point out that none of the additional patches fix any bugs, so this
may violate the stable kernel rules. In fact, I deliberately split the
XTS changes into two patches so that the first one could be
backported individually.

--
Ard.

> applied in this order:
>
> From 032d049ea0f45b45c21f3f02b542aa18bc6b6428 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:44:52 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] crypto: aesni - Use TEST %reg,%reg instead of CMP $0,%reg
>
> From ddf169a98f01d6fd46295ec0dd4c1d6385be65d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:34:02 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] crypto: aesni - implement support for cts(cbc(aes))
>
> From 86ad60a65f29dd862a11c22bb4b5be28d6c5cef1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 17:41:54 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] crypto: x86/aes-ni-xts - use direct calls to and 4-way
> stride
>
> From 2481104fe98d5b016fdd95d649b1235f21e491ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 17:41:55 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] crypto: x86/aes-ni-xts - rewrite and drop indirections
> via glue helper
>
> --
> Thomas
>