This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: gcm - add GCM IV size constant
to the 4.14-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-gcm-add-gcm-iv-size-constant.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ef780324592dd639e4bfbc5b9bf8934b234b7c99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Corentin LABBE <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:08:08 +0200
Subject: crypto: gcm - add GCM IV size constant
From: Corentin LABBE <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx>
commit ef780324592dd639e4bfbc5b9bf8934b234b7c99 upstream.
Many GCM users use directly GCM IV size instead of using some constant.
This patch add all IV size constant used by GCM.
Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/crypto/gcm.h | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/crypto/gcm.h
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#ifndef _CRYPTO_GCM_H
+#define _CRYPTO_GCM_H
+
+#define GCM_AES_IV_SIZE 12
+#define GCM_RFC4106_IV_SIZE 8
+#define GCM_RFC4543_IV_SIZE 8
+
+#endif
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/crypto-gcm-add-gcm-iv-size-constant.patch
queue-4.14/crypto-aesni-use-gcm-iv-size-constant.patch