linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: add missing statesize

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Message-ID: <20151109035848.GA2163@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Mon, 9 Nov 2015 11:58:48 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Christoph Biedl <linux-kernel.bfrz@...chmal.in-ulm.de>
Cc:	maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com, clabbe.montjoie@...il.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, wens@...e.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: add missing statesize

Christoph Biedl <linux-kernel.bfrz@...chmal.in-ulm.de> wrote:
>
> Fixes: should rather point to the commit that caused the breakage in my
> opinion. Which did this by intention:

Absolutely not.  That patch is correct and if you revert that
you will simply end up registering a broken driver into the system
that may then lead to crashes that can be triggered from user-space.

> | commit 8996eafdcbad149ac0f772fb1649fbb75c482a6a
> | Author: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
> | Date:   Fri Oct 9 20:43:33 2015 +0100
> | 
> |     crypto: ahash - ensure statesize is non-zero
> (...)
> +     This patch adds a check to prevent these drivers from registering
> +     ahash algorithms until they are fixed.

Cheers,
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