+ kernel-kexec-remove-inclusion-of-crypto-hashh.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

+ kernel-kexec-remove-inclusion-of-crypto-hashh.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: kernel/kexec: remove inclusion of crypto/hash.h
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     kernel-kexec-remove-inclusion-of-crypto-hashh.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/kernel-kexec-remove-inclusion-of-crypto-hashh.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Subject: kernel/kexec: remove inclusion of crypto/hash.h
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:41:44 -0700

kexec_core.c does not do any cryptographic hashing, so the header
crypto/hash.h is not needed at all.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260314204144.44884-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/kexec_core.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c~kernel-kexec-remove-inclusion-of-crypto-hashh
+++ a/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>
 
-#include <crypto/hash.h>
 #include "kexec_internal.h"
 
 atomic_t __kexec_lock = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from ebiggers@kernel.org are

kernel-crash-remove-inclusion-of-crypto-sha1h.patch
kernel-kexec-remove-inclusion-of-crypto-hashh.patch