Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 03/26] dm integrity: select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Wed Jan 20 2021 - 00:48:36 EST


On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 08:26:40PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@xxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit f7b347acb5f6c29d9229bb64893d8b6a2c7949fb ]
>
> The integrity target relies on skcipher for encryption/decryption, but
> certain kernel configurations may not enable CRYPTO_SKCIPHER, leading to
> compilation errors due to unresolved symbols. Explicitly select
> CRYPTO_SKCIPHER for DM_INTEGRITY, since it is unconditionally dependent
> on it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/md/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig
> index aa98953f4462e..7dd6e98257c72 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig
> @@ -565,6 +565,7 @@ config DM_INTEGRITY
> select BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
> select DM_BUFIO
> select CRYPTO
> + select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER
> select ASYNC_XOR
> ---help---
> This device-mapper target emulates a block device that has

CRYPTO_SKCIPHER doesn't exist in 5.4 and earlier because it was renamed from
CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER in 5.5. If this patch is really important enough to backport,
CRYPTO_SKCIPHER will need to be changed to CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER.

- Eric