From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "J. Paul Reed" <preed@sigkill.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fixing userspace crypto in 3.14.x?
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:45:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160313004510.GA5820@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160313002654.GA3563@sigkill.com>
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 04:26:54PM -0800, J. Paul Reed wrote:
>
> Userspace crypto has been broken in the 3.14 series since 3.14.61; see:
>
> http://marc.info/?t=145571848500001&r=1&w=2
>
> Specifically:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-crypto-vger&m=145597880120294&w=2
>
> and
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-crypto-vger&m=145579378307060&w=2
>
> I waited a few 3.14 maintenance releases to see if this would get fixed,
> but as of 3.14.64, it remains broken.
>
> Are there any plans plans to fix this? (For those of us with luks-encrypted
> partitions, the 3.14 tree is now unusable past 3.14.60.)
So, what patch should I revert from 3.10.y and 3.14.y to "fix" this? I
thought only 4.1.y was affected. Or better yet, I asked for backports
to resolve this, if someone could come up with them, that would be even
better.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-13 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-13 0:26 Fixing userspace crypto in 3.14.x? J. Paul Reed
2016-03-13 0:45 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-03-13 1:10 ` J. Paul Reed
2016-03-13 3:02 ` Greg KH
2016-03-13 3:55 ` J. Paul Reed
2016-03-13 5:39 ` Greg KH
2016-03-13 9:05 ` J. Paul Reed
2016-03-24 2:31 ` J. Paul Reed
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