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
