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Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: add missing statesize

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Christoph Biedl <linux-kernel.bfrz@manchmal.in-ulm.de> wrote:
>
> Fixes: should rather point to the commit that caused the breakage in my
> opinion. Which did this by intention:

Absolutely not.  That patch is correct and if you revert that
you will simply end up registering a broken driver into the system
that may then lead to crashes that can be triggered from user-space.

> | commit 8996eafdcbad149ac0f772fb1649fbb75c482a6a
> | Author: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
> | Date:   Fri Oct 9 20:43:33 2015 +0100
> | 
> |     crypto: ahash - ensure statesize is non-zero
> (...)
> +     This patch adds a check to prevent these drivers from registering
> +     ahash algorithms until they are fixed.

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[PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: add missing statesize LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> - 2015-11-05 08:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: add missing statesize Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org> - 2015-11-05 11:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: add missing statesize Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2015-11-05 17:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: add missing statesize Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-11-06 06:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: add missing statesize Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2015-11-08 19:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: add missing statesize Christoph Biedl <linux-kernel.bfrz@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2015-11-08 19:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: add missing statesize Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-11-09 05:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: add missing statesize Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2015-11-11 23:30 +0100

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