Re: [PATCH 1/4] patches: update crypto-ccm.patch for v4.11-rc1

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 10:49 +0100, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> 
> On 10-3-2017 7:34, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 12:57 +0000, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> > > Since v4.11-rc1 the patch file for crypto/ccm.c, which is
> > > incorporated
> > > in the compat module, no longer applies. Update the patch file to
> > > fix
> > > the issue.
> > 
> > I think I want to get rid of this ccm thing entirely, any
> > objections?
> > As I remember, it doesn't actually work properly anyway.
> 
> No objection here. Does the same apply to skcipher stuff?

I think so, but not sure.

> > I suspect that if we really can't do anything else, we'd have to
> > provide a backport for all of crypto/, but I don't want to go there
> > and
> > would rather mandate that all the crypto things are enabled in the
> > base
> > kernel.
> 
> But that can only work when crypto api in base kernel and backport
> kernel are the same, right?

No, I meant adding all of crypto/ to copy-list and making sure *that*
works across kernels ...

johannes
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