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Re: [PATCH] crypto: Make a few drivers depend on !VMAP_STACK

From Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] crypto: Make a few drivers depend on !VMAP_STACK
Date 2016-12-13 04:50 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:55:20PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Eric Biggers found several crypto drivers that point scatterlists at
> the stack.  These drivers should never load on x86, but, for future
> safety, make them depend on !VMAP_STACK.
> 
> No -stable backport should be needed as no released kernel
> configuration should be affected.
> 
> Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

Nack.  These drivers are all async and are never used with a
stack request.

Cheers,
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