From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: salvatore.benedetto@intel.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "crypto: api - Clear CRYPTO_ALG_DEAD bit before registering an alg" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2017 10:16:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14861997801580@kroah.com> (raw)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: api - Clear CRYPTO_ALG_DEAD bit before registering an alg
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
crypto-api-clear-crypto_alg_dead-bit-before-registering-an-alg.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From d6040764adcb5cb6de1489422411d701c158bb69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Salvatore Benedetto <salvatore.benedetto@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 11:54:08 +0000
Subject: crypto: api - Clear CRYPTO_ALG_DEAD bit before registering an alg
From: Salvatore Benedetto <salvatore.benedetto@intel.com>
commit d6040764adcb5cb6de1489422411d701c158bb69 upstream.
Make sure CRYPTO_ALG_DEAD bit is cleared before proceeding with
the algorithm registration. This fixes qat-dh registration when
driver is restarted
Signed-off-by: Salvatore Benedetto <salvatore.benedetto@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
crypto/algapi.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/crypto/algapi.c
+++ b/crypto/algapi.c
@@ -357,6 +357,7 @@ int crypto_register_alg(struct crypto_al
struct crypto_larval *larval;
int err;
+ alg->cra_flags &= ~CRYPTO_ALG_DEAD;
err = crypto_check_alg(alg);
if (err)
return err;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from salvatore.benedetto@intel.com are
queue-4.4/crypto-api-clear-crypto_alg_dead-bit-before-registering-an-alg.patch
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