[PATCH v2 0/8] crypto: ARM/arm64 - big endian fixes

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 18 October 2016 at 12:49, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 07:15:12PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> As it turns out, none of the accelerated crypto routines under arch/arm64/crypto
>> currently work, or have ever worked correctly when built for big endian. So this
>> series fixes all of them. This v2 now includes a similar fix for 32-bit ARM as
>> well, and an additional fix for XTS which escaped my attention before.
>>
>> Each of these patches carries a fixes tag, and could be backported to stable.
>> However, for patches #1 and #5, the fixes tag denotes the oldest commit that the
>> fix is compatible with, not the patch that introduced the algorithm.
>
> I think for future reference, the Fixes tag should denote the commit
> that introduced the issue. An explicit Cc: stable tag would state how
> far back it should be applied.
>

OK, that sounds reasonable.

>> Ard Biesheuvel (8):
>>   crypto: arm64/aes-ce - fix for big endian
>>   crypto: arm64/ghash-ce - fix for big endian
>>   crypto: arm64/sha1-ce - fix for big endian
>>   crypto: arm64/sha2-ce - fix for big endian
>>   crypto: arm64/aes-ccm-ce: fix for big endian
>>   crypto: arm64/aes-neon - fix for big endian
>>   crypto: arm64/aes-xts-ce: fix for big endian
>>   crypto: arm/aes-ce - fix for big endian
>
> The changes look fine to me but I can't claim I fully understand these
> algorithms. FWIW:
>
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
>
> (Will may pick them up for 4.9-rcX)

Thanks, although I was kind of expecting Herbert to pick these up,
given that #8 affects ARM not arm64.

But if you (or Will) can pick up #1 to #7, that is also fine, then I
can drop #8 into rmk's patch database.

Thanks,
Ard,