please apply 660d2062190db131 to v5.4+

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Sun Mar 7 15:03:04 GMT 2021


On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 01:48:26PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Please consider applying the following upstream patch to stable trees
> v5.4 and up
> 
> commit 660d2062190db131d2feaf19914e90f868fe285c
> Author: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> Date:   Wed Jan 13 10:11:35 2021 +0100
> 
> crypto - shash: reduce minimum alignment of shash_desc structure
> 
> On architectures such as arm64, it reduces the worst case memory
> footprint of a SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK() allocation (which reserves space
> for two struct shash_desc instances) by ~350 bytes.

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h



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