On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 10:11:19AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > Greg, > > This pertains to commit 8ceee72808d1 (crypto: ghash-clmulni-intel - > use C implementation for setkey()) that has been pulled by Linus > during the current merge window. > > It is missing two things: > - a cc to stable annotation > - a fix for the sparse warning below (change cast from __be64 to __force > __be64) > > The reason for cc'ing stable on this patch is that it fixes a > potential data corruption issue where the ghash setkey() method uses > SSE registers without calling kernel_fpu_begin() first. This issue was > introduced by 0e1227d356e9b (crypto: ghash - Add PCLMULQDQ accelerated > implementation). > > So how would you like to proceed with this? Should I propose a new > patch somewhere?
No problem, I'll apply this as-is. But it doesn't apply to the 3.4-stable tree cleanly, can you send me a backported version if it's still needed there as well? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
