This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

Revert "crypto: xts - Add ECB dependency"

to the 4.4-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: revert-crypto-xts-add-ecb-dependency.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 foo@baz Sun Nov 19 12:02:55 CET 2017

From: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:55:20 -0500 Subject: Revert "crypto: xts - Add ECB dependency"

From: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com

This reverts commit 6145171a6bc0abdc3eca7a4b795ede467d2ba569.

The commit fixes a bug that was only introduced in 4.10, thus is irrelevant for <=4.9.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- crypto/Kconfig | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/crypto/Kconfig @@ -343,7 +343,6 @@ config CRYPTO_XTS select CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER select CRYPTO_MANAGER select CRYPTO_GF128MUL - select CRYPTO_ECB help XTS: IEEE1619/D16 narrow block cipher use with aes-xts-plain, key size 256, 384 or 512 bits. This implementation currently

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexander.levin@verizon.com are

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