This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: gcm - add GCM IV size constant
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: crypto-gcm-add-gcm-iv-size-constant.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From ef780324592dd639e4bfbc5b9bf8934b234b7c99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Corentin LABBE clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:08:08 +0200 Subject: crypto: gcm - add GCM IV size constant
From: Corentin LABBE clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com
commit ef780324592dd639e4bfbc5b9bf8934b234b7c99 upstream.
Many GCM users use directly GCM IV size instead of using some constant.
This patch add all IV size constant used by GCM.
Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- include/crypto/gcm.h | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
--- /dev/null +++ b/include/crypto/gcm.h @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +#ifndef _CRYPTO_GCM_H +#define _CRYPTO_GCM_H + +#define GCM_AES_IV_SIZE 12 +#define GCM_RFC4106_IV_SIZE 8 +#define GCM_RFC4543_IV_SIZE 8 + +#endif
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com are
queue-4.14/crypto-gcm-add-gcm-iv-size-constant.patch queue-4.14/crypto-aesni-use-gcm-iv-size-constant.patch