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Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Kernel Team (canonical-kernel-team)
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Title:
Ubuntu 17.10: Include patch "crypto: vmx - Use skcipher for ctr
fallback"
Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project:
Triaged
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in linux source package in Artful:
In Progress
Bug description:
== Comment: #0 - Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmor...@br.ibm.com> - 2017-11-17
10:29:14 ==
Ubuntu 17.10 uses linux kernel 4.13 witch has a problem with the fallback
cipher for CTR mode. The commit bellow fixes this problem by using the new
structure for the generic ciphers. Please add it to the kernel package.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6.git/commit/?id=e666d4e9ceec94c0a88c94b7db31d56474da43b3
== Comment: #1 - VIPIN K. PARASHAR <vipar...@in.ibm.com> - 2017-11-17
13:38:05 ==
(In reply to comment #0)
> Ubuntu 17.10 uses linux kernel 4.13 witch has a problem with the fallback
> cipher for CTR mode. The commit bellow fixes this problem by using the new
> structure for the generic ciphers. Please add it to the kernel package.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6.git/
> commit/?id=e666d4e9ceec94c0a88c94b7db31d56474da43b3
Which is commit e666d4e9ceec94
commit e666d4e9ceec94c0a88c94b7db31d56474da43b3
Author: Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmor...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon Oct 16 20:54:19 2017 -0200
crypto: vmx - Use skcipher for ctr fallback
Signed-off-by: Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmor...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au>
Its available with 4.14 kernel.
Hello Canonical,
Please include commit e666d4e9ceec94 - "crypto: vmx - Use skcipher for ctr
fallback"
with Ubuntu 17.10 kernel.
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