crypto fix backport for 3.17 (F-21)

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 10 19:56:52 UTC 2014


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 HorĂ¡k <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.

josh


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