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From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: dm-crypt: plain64 IV support for -stable?
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:33:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CB463A0.7050601@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101012132511.GA24455@khazad-dum.debian.net>

On 10/12/2010 03:25 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Would it be possible to add commit 61afef614b013ee1b767cdd10325acae1db1f4d2
> "dm crypt: add plain64 iv" to -stable?
> 
> Without it, users of LTS kernels like 2.6.32 are missing important
> functionality (as in: might not be able to mount some LUKS volumes
> created on newer kernels).
 
Yes, that should not cause any problems, it should be plain cherry-pick...

(plain64 is just 64bit version of "plain" IV generator, so for <2TB devices are these equivalents)

Milan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-12 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-12 13:25 dm-crypt: plain64 IV support for -stable? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-10-12 13:32 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2010-10-12 15:28   ` [stable] " Greg KH
2010-10-12 13:33 ` Milan Broz [this message]
2010-10-12 14:11 ` Greg KH
2010-10-12 19:04   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-10-13  6:40     ` Greg KH

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