linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH crypto-stable v2] crypto: arch

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Date:   Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:09:29 -0600
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH crypto-stable v2] crypto: arch - limit simd usage to 4k chunks

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 4:39 PM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org> wrote:
> Can you split the nhpoly1305 changes into a separate patch?  They're a bit
> different from the rest of this patch, which is fixing up the crypto library
> interface that's new in v5.5.  The nhpoly1305 changes apply to v5.0 and don't
> have anything to do with the crypto library interface, and they're also a bit
> different since they replace PAGE_SIZE with 4K rather than unlimited with 4K.

Good point about the nhpoly change not being part of the library
interface and thus backportable differently. I'll split that out and
send a v3 shortly.

Jason