This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: mcryptd - Fix load failure
to the 4.4-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-mcryptd-fix-load-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ddef482420b1ba8ec45e6123a7e8d3f67b21e5e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Wang, Rui Y" <rui.y.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:08:36 +0800
Subject: crypto: mcryptd - Fix load failure
From: Wang, Rui Y <rui.y.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
commit ddef482420b1ba8ec45e6123a7e8d3f67b21e5e3 upstream.
mcryptd_create_hash() fails by returning -EINVAL, causing any
driver using mcryptd to fail to load. It is because it needs
to set its statesize properly.
Signed-off-by: Rui Wang <rui.y.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
crypto/mcryptd.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/crypto/mcryptd.c
+++ b/crypto/mcryptd.c
@@ -531,6 +531,7 @@ static int mcryptd_create_hash(struct cr
inst->alg.halg.base.cra_flags = type;
inst->alg.halg.digestsize = salg->digestsize;
+ inst->alg.halg.statesize = salg->statesize;
inst->alg.halg.base.cra_ctxsize = sizeof(struct mcryptd_hash_ctx);
inst->alg.halg.base.cra_init = mcryptd_hash_init_tfm;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rui.y.wang@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/crypto-cryptd-assign-statesize-properly.patch
queue-4.4/crypto-ghash-clmulni-fix-load-failure.patch
queue-4.4/crypto-mcryptd-fix-load-failure.patch