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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 19:02:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160313030246.GD11289@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160313011053.GA11370@sigkill.com>

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 05:10:53PM -0800, J. Paul Reed wrote:
> 
> On 12 Mar 2016 at 16:45:10, Greg KH arranged the bits on my disk to say:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> The following message in that thread has assumed-bad commit (and the
> associated bisect log):
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-crypto-vger&m=145575300630247&w=2
> 
> As for backports, I'm merely a lowly kernel user.

I don't see how that breaks anything in userspace, can you please bring
this up with the developers of that patch and the crypto mailing list?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-13  3:47 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
2016-03-13  1:10   ` J. Paul Reed
2016-03-13  3:02     ` Greg KH [this message]
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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