linux-kernel - Re: [stable] dm-crypt: plain64 IV support for -stable?

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Date:	Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:11:43 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
	Milan Broz <mbroz@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] dm-crypt: plain64 IV support for -stable?

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:25:11AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Would it be possible to add commit 61afef614b013ee1b767cdd10325acae1db1f4d2
> "dm crypt: add plain64 iv" to -stable?

Which -stable tree?  .27, .32, .35, or any/all of them?  Please be more
specific when asking for this in the future.

> 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).

Also note that this patch really looks like a "new feature", not a
bugfix or anything that matches up with what
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt defines.  So I don't think that it
really is something to add to a stable kernel.

thanks,

greg k-h
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