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SubjectRe: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 39/39] crypto: xts - simplify error handling in ->create()
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 08:55:30PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 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@google.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@google.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.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.
>

If the gcc 10 warning fix is needed, then you should just backport it on its
own. It just renames a function, so it seems it's trivial to fix the conflict?

- Eric

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