Re: [PATCH v13 6/6] md: dm-crypt: omit parsing of the encapsulated cipher

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, Aug 19 2019 at 10:17am -0400,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Only the ESSIV IV generation mode used to use cc->cipher so it could
> instantiate the bare cipher used to encrypt the IV. However, this is
> now taken care of by the ESSIV template, and so no users of cc->cipher
> remain. So remove it altogether.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>

Might be wise to bump the dm-crypt target's version number (from
{1, 19, 0} to {1, 20, 0}) at the end of this patch too though...

But again, Herbert please feel free to pull this into your 5.4 branch.

Thanks,
Mike

--
dm-devel mailing list
dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel



[Index of Archives]     [DM Crypt]     [Fedora Desktop]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Yosemite Discussion]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Docs]

  Powered by Linux