Messages in this thread | | | From | Kalle Valo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] orinoco: Use shash instead of ahash for MIC calculations | Date | Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:35:39 +0200 |
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Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> writes:
> Eric Biggers pointed out that the orinoco driver pointed scatterlists > at the stack. > > Fix it by switching from ahash to shash. The result should be > simpler, faster, and more correct. > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.9 only > Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
"more correct"? Does this fix a real user visible bug or what? And why just stable 4.9, does this maybe have something to do with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK?
I'm just wondering should I push this to 4.10 or -next. This is a driver for ancient hardware so I'm starting to lean for -next.
-- Kalle Valo
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