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Date:   Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:25:16 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To:     Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.8 000/232] 5.8.3-rc1 review
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 08:57:57PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 14:55, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.8.3 release.
> > There are 232 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> >
> > Responses should be made by Sat, 22 Aug 2020 09:15:09 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> >         https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.8.3-rc1.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> >         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.8.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> 
> > Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> >     crypto: af_alg - Fix regression on empty requests
> 
> Results from Linaro’s test farm.
> Regressions detected.
> 
>   ltp-crypto-tests:
>     * af_alg02
>   ltp-cve-tests:
>     * cve-2017-17805
> 
> af_alg02.c:52: BROK: Timed out while reading from request socket.
> We are running the LTP 20200515 tag released test suite.
>  https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/testcases/kernel/crypto/af_alg02.c
> 
> Summary
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> kernel: 5.8.3-rc1
> git repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
> git branch: linux-5.8.y
> git commit: 201fff807310ce10485bcff294d47be95f3769eb
> git describe: v5.8.2-233-g201fff807310
> Test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-5.8-oe/build/v5.8.2-233-g201fff807310
> 
> Regressions (compared to build v5.8.2)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> x15:
>   ltp-crypto-tests:
>     * af_alg02
> 
>   ltp-cve-tests:
>     * cve-2017-17805
> 

Looks like this test is still "broken" because it assumes behavior that isn't
clearly specified, as previously discussed at
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200702033221.GA19367@gondor.apana.org.au.

I sent out LTP patches to fix it:
https://lkml.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20200820181918.404758-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/T/#u

- Eric