From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755172AbaCZANO (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:13:14 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:48614 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752035AbaCZANI (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:13:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:14:49 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Tim Chen Cc: Herbert Xu , "H. Peter Anvin" , "David S.Miller" , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , "Huang, Ying" , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix late crypto work queue initialization Message-ID: <20140326001449.GA29250@kroah.com> References: <1395100347.2970.14.camel@schen9-DESK> <20140321144040.GD25820@gondor.apana.org.au> <1395790856.2970.33.camel@schen9-DESK> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1395790856.2970.33.camel@schen9-DESK> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 04:40:56PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote: > On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 22:40 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 04:52:26PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote: > > > The crypto algorithm modules utilizing the crypto daemon could > > > be used early when the system start up. Using module_init > > > does not guarantee that the daemon's work queue is initialized > > > when the cypto alorithm depending on crypto_wq starts. It is necessary > > > to initialize the crypto work queue earlier at the subsystem > > > init time to make sure that it is initialized > > > when used. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Tim Chen > > > > Patch applied. > > Herbert, > > Probably this patch should go to the stable patches as well. > Copying Greg. This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly.