Re: [PATCH] crypto: s390 - fix des and des3_ede ctr concurrency issue

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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:01:33PM +0100, Harald Freudenberger wrote:
> In s390 des and 3des ctr mode there is one preallocated page
> used to speed up the en/decryption. This page is not protected
> against concurrent usage and thus there is a potential of data
> corruption with multiple threads.
> 
> The fix introduces locking/unlocking the ctr page and a slower
> fallback solution at concurrency situations.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

All three patches applied to crypto.  Thanks for fixing these
bugs.
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