Re: [PATCH] Fix late crypto work queue initialization

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Mar 25 2014 - 20:13:24 EST


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 04:40:56PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 22:40 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 04:52:26PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> > > The crypto algorithm modules utilizing the crypto daemon could
> > > be used early when the system start up. Using module_init
> > > does not guarantee that the daemon's work queue is initialized
> > > when the cypto alorithm depending on crypto_wq starts. It is necessary
> > > to initialize the crypto work queue earlier at the subsystem
> > > init time to make sure that it is initialized
> > > when used.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Patch applied.
>
> Herbert,
>
> Probably this patch should go to the stable patches as well.
> Copying Greg.

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.

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