lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2015]   [Nov]   [8]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: add missing statesize
Christoph Biedl <linux-kernel.bfrz@manchmal.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@arm.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,
--
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2015-11-09 05:21    [W:0.298 / U:0.904 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site