crypto fix backport for 3.17 (F-21)

Dan Horák dan at danny.cz
Mon Nov 10 21:03:29 UTC 2014


On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:56:52 -0500
Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Josh Boyer
> <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Dan Horák <dan at danny.cz> wrote:
> >> Hi kernel-maint,
> >>
> >> I'd like to ask you to backport
> >> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/crypto/algif_skcipher.c?id=e2cffb5f493a8b431dc87124388ea59b79f0bccb
> >> to our F-21 kernel as soon as possible. Older kernel should be
> >> solved automagically when the patch goes to stable branches. For
> >> F-21 this is causing installation failure on encrypted device, see
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1160289 for the whole
> >> history. It is affecting all arches with page size >= 64k, like
> >> ppc* and aarch64.
> >
> > OK.  I'll get to this a bit later today.
> 
> Added.  Do you just need a build done in koji for the secondary
> builders to pick up, or do you need it in stable updates as well?  We
> can do the former without issue, but 3.17.3 should be coming shortly
> and we'd like to wait for that before filing an actual update.

just a build is sufficient, no need for stable update for this


	Thanks
		Dan


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