This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: camellia_aesni_avx - Fix CPU feature checks
to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
crypto-camellia_aesni_avx-fix-cpu-feature-checks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 92b279070dd6c94265db32748bbeb5b583588de9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 12:31:33 +0100
Subject: crypto: camellia_aesni_avx - Fix CPU feature checks
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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 92b279070dd6c94265db32748bbeb5b583588de9 upstream.
We need to explicitly check the AVX and AES CPU features, as we can't
infer them from the related XSAVE feature flags. For example, the
Core i3 2310M passes the XSAVE feature test but does not implement
AES-NI.
Reported-and-tested-by: Stéphane Glondu <glondu@xxxxxxxxxx>
References: https://bugs.debian.org/800934
Fixes: ce4f5f9b65ae ("x86/fpu, crypto x86/camellia_aesni_avx: Simplify...")
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/crypto/camellia_aesni_avx_glue.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/crypto/camellia_aesni_avx_glue.c
+++ b/arch/x86/crypto/camellia_aesni_avx_glue.c
@@ -554,6 +554,11 @@ static int __init camellia_aesni_init(vo
{
const char *feature_name;
+ if (!cpu_has_avx || !cpu_has_aes || !cpu_has_osxsave) {
+ pr_info("AVX or AES-NI instructions are not detected.\n");
+ return -ENODEV;
+ }
+
if (!cpu_has_xfeatures(XSTATE_SSE | XSTATE_YMM, &feature_name)) {
pr_info("CPU feature '%s' is not supported.\n", feature_name);
return -ENODEV;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.2/ethtool-use-kcalloc-instead-of-kmalloc-for-ethtool_get_strings.patch
queue-4.2/crypto-camellia_aesni_avx-fix-cpu-feature-checks.patch
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