ACK/cmnt: [SRU][Bionic][PATCH 0/1] crypto: vmx - Fix sleep-in-atomic bugs

[Khaled Elmously]

On 2018-10-12 14:22:14 , Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1790832
> 
> == SRU Justification ==
> IBM is requesting this patch in all releases order to fix the sleep-in-atomic 
> bugs in AES-CBC and AES-XTS VMX implementations.
> 
> This patch is a clean cherry pick and has already been applied to
> Cosmic.  It is also needed in Xenial, but there was a minor context
> diff, so the Xenial SRU will be sent separatly.  
> 
> == Fix ==
> 0522236d4f9c ("crypto: vmx - Fix sleep-in-atomic bugs")
> 
> == Regression Potential ==
> Low.  This patch has also been cc'd to upstream stable, so it has had
> additional upstream review.
> 
> == Test Case ==
> A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
> The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
> 
> 
> Ondrej Mosnacek (1):
>   crypto: vmx - Fix sleep-in-atomic bugs
> 
>  drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c | 30 ++++++++++++++----------------
>  drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_xts.c | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
>  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>

Acked-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously at canonical.com>

I think the expectation for non-clean cherry-picks is to say "backported from XXXXXXXXX" followed by something like [jsalisbury: minor context adjustment] - at least that's what I've been told. I'm fine with it as-is though.