Re: [PATCH 4.19 12/58] dm integrity: select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jan 26 2021 - 13:27:36 EST


On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 07:58:29PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > 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.
>
> There is no such config option in 4.19. This patch is not suitable
> here.
>
> grep -r CRYPTO_SKCIPHER .
> ./include/crypto/skcipher.h:#ifndef _CRYPTO_SKCIPHER_H
> ./include/crypto/skcipher.h:#define _CRYPTO_SKCIPHER_H
> ./include/crypto/skcipher.h:#endif /* _CRYPTO_SKCIPHER_H */
>
> Best regards,
> Pavel
>
> > +++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig
> > @@ -527,6 +527,7 @@ 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

Good catch, now dropped, thanks.

greg k-h