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Patch "crypto: mcryptd - Fix load failure" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

crypto: mcryptd - Fix load failure

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
crypto-mcryptd-fix-load-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From ddef482420b1ba8ec45e6123a7e8d3f67b21e5e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: "Wang, Rui Y" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:08:36 +0800
Subject: crypto: mcryptd - Fix load failure

From: Wang, Rui Y <[email protected]>

commit ddef482420b1ba8ec45e6123a7e8d3f67b21e5e3 upstream.

mcryptd_create_hash() fails by returning -EINVAL, causing any driver using mcryptd to fail to load. It is because it needs to set its statesize properly.

---
 crypto/mcryptd.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
crypto/mcryptd.c +1 -0
@@ -531,6 +531,7 @@ static int mcryptd_create_hash(struct cr
 	inst->alg.halg.base.cra_flags = type;
 
 	inst->alg.halg.digestsize = salg->digestsize;
+	inst->alg.halg.statesize = salg->statesize;
 	inst->alg.halg.base.cra_ctxsize = sizeof(struct mcryptd_hash_ctx);
 
 	inst->alg.halg.base.cra_init = mcryptd_hash_init_tfm;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/crypto-cryptd-assign-statesize-properly.patch queue-4.4/crypto-ghash-clmulni-fix-load-failure.patch queue-4.4/crypto-mcryptd-fix-load-failure.patch