Patch "crypto: crc32c - Fix crc32c soft dependency" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    crypto: crc32c - Fix crc32c soft dependency

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     crypto-crc32c-fix-crc32c-soft-dependency.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From fd7f6727102a1ccf6b4c1dfcc631f9b546526b26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:06:05 +0100
Subject: crypto: crc32c - Fix crc32c soft dependency

From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>

commit fd7f6727102a1ccf6b4c1dfcc631f9b546526b26 upstream.

I don't think it makes sense for a module to have a soft dependency
on itself. This seems quite cyclic by nature and I can't see what
purpose it could serve.

OTOH libcrc32c calls crypto_alloc_shash("crc32c", 0, 0) so it pretty
much assumes that some incarnation of the "crc32c" hash algorithm has
been loaded. Therefore it makes sense to have the soft dependency
there (as crc-t10dif does.)

Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 crypto/crc32c_generic.c |    1 -
 lib/libcrc32c.c         |    1 +
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/crypto/crc32c_generic.c
+++ b/crypto/crc32c_generic.c
@@ -172,4 +172,3 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CRC32c (Castagnoli)
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("crc32c");
 MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("crc32c-generic");
-MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: crc32c");
--- a/lib/libcrc32c.c
+++ b/lib/libcrc32c.c
@@ -74,3 +74,4 @@ module_exit(libcrc32c_mod_fini);
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Clay Haapala <chaapala@cisco.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CRC32c (Castagnoli) calculations");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: crc32c");


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jdelvare@suse.de are

queue-4.4/crypto-crc32c-fix-crc32c-soft-dependency.patch