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

[Herbert Xu]

Christoph Biedl <linux-kernel.bfrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | 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.

Cheers,
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