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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:13:43 -0700
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.4 113/313] crypto: skcipher - unify the
 crypto_has_skcipher*() functions
Message-ID: <20230725161343.GA2295@sol.localdomain>
References: <20230725104521.167250627@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 12:44:26PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit d3ca75a8b3d77f2788e6c119ea7c3e3a1ab1e1ca ]
> 
> crypto_has_skcipher() and crypto_has_skcipher2() do the same thing: they
> check for the availability of an algorithm of type skcipher, blkcipher,
> or ablkcipher, which also meets any non-type constraints the caller
> specified.  And they have exactly the same prototype.
> 
> Therefore, eliminate the redundancy by removing crypto_has_skcipher()
> and renaming crypto_has_skcipher2() to crypto_has_skcipher().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Stable-dep-of: efbc7764c444 ("crypto: marvell/cesa - Fix type mismatch warning")
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> ---
>  crypto/skcipher.c         |  4 ++--
>  include/crypto/skcipher.h | 19 +------------------
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

How is this a Stable-dep-of "crypto: marvell/cesa - Fix type mismatch warning"?

I don't understand why this is being backported.

- Eric