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Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 20:55:30 -0400 From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 39/39] crypto: xts - simplify error handling in ->create() On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:08:43PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: >On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 02:54:56PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: >> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com> >> >> [ Upstream commit 732e540953477083082e999ff553622c59cffd5f ] >> >> Simplify the error handling in the XTS template's ->create() function by >> taking advantage of crypto_drop_skcipher() now accepting (as a no-op) a >> spawn that hasn't been grabbed yet. >> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com> >> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> >> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> > >Please don't backport this patch. It's a cleanup (not a fix) that depends on >patches in 5.6, which you don't seem to be backporting. For 5.6-4.19 I grabbed these to take: 1a263ae60b04 ("gcc-10: avoid shadowing standard library 'free()' in crypto") cleanly. I'll drop it as it's mostly to avoid silly gcc10 warnings, but I just wanted to let you know the reason they ended up here. >Note, this comment applies to all stable trees as well as all the other >"simplify error handling in ->create()" patches. >I hope that I don't have to reply to every individual email. You don't :) -- Thanks, Sasha
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