Re: dm-crypt: plain64 IV support for -stable?

From: Milan Broz
Date: Tue Oct 12 2010 - 09:33:52 EST


On 10/12/2010 03:25 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Would it be possible to add commit 61afef614b013ee1b767cdd10325acae1db1f4d2
> "dm crypt: add plain64 iv" to -stable?
>
> Without it, users of LTS kernels like 2.6.32 are missing important
> functionality (as in: might not be able to mount some LUKS volumes
> created on newer kernels).

Yes, that should not cause any problems, it should be plain cherry-pick...

(plain64 is just 64bit version of "plain" IV generator, so for <2TB devices are these equivalents)

Milan
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