On Thu, 2017-10-19 at 15:49 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me > know. > > ------------------ > > From: Milan Broz <[email protected]> > > > [ Upstream commit 12cb3a1c4184f891d965d1f39f8cfcc9ef617647 ] > > Since the > commit f1c131b45410a202eb45cc55980a7a9e4e4b4f40 > crypto: xts - Convert to skcipher
That commit went into 4.10, and not any stable branches. So this fix doesn't appear to be appropriate for the older branches it was applied to. Ben. > the XTS mode is based on ECB, so the mode must select > ECB otherwise it can fail to initialize. > > Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > --- > crypto/Kconfig | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > --- a/crypto/Kconfig > +++ b/crypto/Kconfig > @@ -343,6 +343,7 @@ 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 > > > -- Ben Hutchings Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.
