From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757338Ab0JLNds (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:33:48 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:48372 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757220Ab0JLNdr (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:33:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4CB463A0.7050601@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:33:20 +0200 From: Milan Broz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100914 Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Alasdair G Kergon Subject: Re: dm-crypt: plain64 IV support for -stable? References: <20101012132511.GA24455@khazad-dum.debian.net> In-Reply-To: <20101012132511.GA24455@khazad-dum.debian.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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