From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: Thibaut Sautereau <thibaut.sautereau@clip-os.org>,
Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com, Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dm-crypt error when CONFIG_CRYPTO_AUTHENC is disabled
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:37:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190920173707.GA21143@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190920154434.GA923@gandi.net>
On Fri, Sep 20 2019 at 11:44am -0400,
Thibaut Sautereau <thibaut.sautereau@clip-os.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just got a dm-crypt "crypt: Error allocating crypto tfm" error when
> trying to "cryptsetup open" a volume. I found out that it was only
> happening when I disabled CONFIG_CRYPTO_AUTHENC.
>
> drivers/md/dm-crypt.c includes the crypto/authenc.h header and seems to
> use some CRYPTO_AUTHENC-related stuff. Therefore, shouldn't
> CONFIG_DM_CRYPT select CONFIG_CRYPTO_AUTHENC?
Yes, it looks like commit ef43aa38063a6 ("dm crypt: add cryptographic
data integrity protection (authenticated encryption)") should've added
'select CRYPTO_AUTHENC' to dm-crypt's Kconfig. I'll let Milan weigh-in
but that seems like the right way forward.
Thanks for your report!
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-20 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-20 15:44 dm-crypt error when CONFIG_CRYPTO_AUTHENC is disabled Thibaut Sautereau
2019-09-20 17:37 ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2019-09-20 19:21 ` Milan Broz
2019-09-20 21:27 ` Mike Snitzer
2019-09-20 21:47 ` [dm-devel] " Eric Biggers
2019-09-23 8:20 ` Thibaut Sautereau
2019-09-23 9:46 ` Milan Broz
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