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Patch "crypto: sun4i_ss_prng - fix return value of sun4i_ss_prng_generate" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

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

crypto: sun4i_ss_prng - fix return value of sun4i_ss_prng_generate

to the 4.15-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-sun4i_ss_prng-fix-return-value-of-sun4i_ss_prng_generate.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 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 dd78c832ffaf86eb6434e56de4bc3bc31f03f771 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Artem Savkov <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 22:20:21 +0100
Subject: crypto: sun4i_ss_prng - fix return value of sun4i_ss_prng_generate

From: Artem Savkov <[email protected]>

commit dd78c832ffaf86eb6434e56de4bc3bc31f03f771 upstream.

According to crypto/rng.h generate function should return 0 on success and < 0 on error.

Fixes b8ae5c7387ad ("crypto: sun4i-ss - support the Security System PRNG")
---
 drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-prng.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-prng.c +1 -1
@@ -52,5 +52,5 @@ int sun4i_ss_prng_generate(struct crypto
 
 	writel(0, ss->base + SS_CTL);
 	spin_unlock(&ss->slock);
-	return dlen;
+	return 0;
 }

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

queue-4.15/crypto-sun4i_ss_prng-convert-lock-to-_bh-in-sun4i_ss_prng_generate.patch queue-4.15/crypto-sun4i_ss_prng-fix-return-value-of-sun4i_ss_prng_generate.patch