Re: [PATCH] drivers: infiniband: sw: rxe: fix kconfig dependency on CRYPTO

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Feb 22 2021 - 11:28:31 EST


On 2/22/21 7:58 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 03:00:03PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 10:39:20AM +0800, Zhu Yanjun wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 2:49 PM Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 06:32:26PM -0500, Julian Braha wrote:
>>>>> commit 6e61907779ba99af785f5b2397a84077c289888a
>>>>> Author: Julian Braha <julianbraha@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Date: Fri Feb 19 18:20:57 2021 -0500
>>>>>
>>>>> drivers: infiniband: sw: rxe: fix kconfig dependency on CRYPTO
>>>>>
>>>>> When RDMA_RXE is enabled and CRYPTO is disabled,
>>>>> Kbuild gives the following warning:
>>>>>
>>>>> WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for CRYPTO_CRC32
>>>>> Depends on [n]: CRYPTO [=n]
>>>>> Selected by [y]:
>>>>> - RDMA_RXE [=y] && (INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS [=y] || !INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS [=y]) && INET [=y] && PCI [=y] && INFINIBAND [=y] && INFINIBAND_VIRT_DMA [=y]
>>>>>
>>>>> This is because RDMA_RXE selects CRYPTO_CRC32,
>>>>> without depending on or selecting CRYPTO, despite that config option
>>>>> being subordinate to CRYPTO.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Julian Braha <julianbraha@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> Please use git sent-email to send patches and please fix crypto Kconfig
>>>> to enable CRYPTO if CRYPTO_* selected.
>>>>
>>>> It is a little bit awkward to request all users of CRYPTO_* to request
>>>> select CRYPTO too.
>>>
>>> The same issue and similar patch is in this link:
>>>
>>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-rdma/patch/20200915101559.33292-1-fazilyildiran@xxxxxxxxx/#23615747
>>
>> So what prevents us from fixing CRYPTO Kconfig?
>
> Yes, I would like to see someone deal with this properly, either every
> place doing select CRYPTO_XX needs fixing or something needs to be
> done in the crypto layer.
>
> I have no idea about kconfig to give advice, I've added Arnd since he
> always seems to know :)

I will Ack the original patch in this thread.

How many Mellanox drivers are you concerned about?
You don't have to fix any other drivers that have a similar issue.


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~Randy