This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled crypto: xts - Add ECB dependency to the 3.18-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-xts-add-ecb-dependency.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Oct 19 15:22:10 CEST 2017 From: Milan Broz <gmazyland@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:38:26 +0100 Subject: crypto: xts - Add ECB dependency From: Milan Broz <gmazyland@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 12cb3a1c4184f891d965d1f39f8cfcc9ef617647 ] Since the commit f1c131b45410a202eb45cc55980a7a9e4e4b4f40 crypto: xts - Convert to skcipher the XTS mode is based on ECB, so the mode must select ECB otherwise it can fail to initialize. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- crypto/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/crypto/Kconfig @@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ config CRYPTO_XTS select CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER select CRYPTO_MANAGER select CRYPTO_GF128MUL + select CRYPTO_ECB help XTS: IEEE1619/D16 narrow block cipher use with aes-xts-plain, key size 256, 384 or 512 bits. This implementation currently Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gmazyland@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/crypto-xts-add-ecb-dependency.patch