Patch "crypto: xts - Add ECB dependency" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: xts - Add ECB dependency
to the 4.9-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-xts-add-ecb-dependency.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 foo@baz Thu Oct 19 15:04:02 CEST 2017
From: Milan Broz <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:38:26 +0100
Subject: crypto: xts - Add ECB dependency
From: Milan Broz <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit 12cb3a1c4184f891d965d1f39f8cfcc9ef617647 ]
Since the
commit f1c131b45410a202eb45cc55980a7a9e4e4b4f40
crypto: xts - Convert to skcipher
the XTS mode is based on ECB, so the mode must select ECB otherwise it can fail to initialize.
--- crypto/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
crypto/Kconfig +1 -0
@@ -360,6 +360,7 @@ config CRYPTO_XTS select CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER select CRYPTO_MANAGER select CRYPTO_GF128MUL + select CRYPTO_ECB help XTS: IEEE1619/D16 narrow block cipher use with aes-xts-plain, key size 256, 384 or 512 bits. This implementation currently
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.9/crypto-xts-add-ecb-dependency.patch