Crypto Fixes for 4.4

From	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Crypto Fixes for 4.4
Date	2015-12-28 14:30 +0100
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Hi Linus:

This push fixes a bug in the algif_skcipher interface that can
trigger a kernel WARN_ON from user-space.  It does so by using
the new skcipher interface which unlike the previous ablkcipher
does not need to create extra geniv objects which is what was
used to trigger the WARN_ON.


Please pull from

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6.git linus


Herbert Xu (1):
      crypto: algif_skcipher - Use new skcipher interface

 crypto/algif_skcipher.c |   61 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

Thanks,
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