Re: [PATCH] security/keys: make BIG_KEYS dependent on stdrng.
From: David Howells
Date: Tue Sep 06 2016 - 09:12:03 EST
Artem Savkov <asavkov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > - select CRYPTO
> > > + depends on (CRYPTO_ANSI_CPRNG = y || CRYPTO_DRBG = y)
> >
> > Should those be "==" not "="?
>
> Accodring to Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt (line 173) it is
> "=" and I can only see "=" being used in existing Kconfigs.
Okay. The other thing is that I have been given a conflicting patch (see
below). Is your fix preferable?
David
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commit 69ed34b303f87a1a53470dd37149ac1573d79da2
Author: Kirill Marinushkin <k.marinushkin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 23:19:32 +0200
KEYS: fix big_key dependency
Signed-off-by: Kirill Marinushkin <k.marinushkin@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Peter Hlavaty <zer0mem@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
security/keys/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/keys/Kconfig b/security/keys/Kconfig
index f826e87..8213221 100644
--- a/security/keys/Kconfig
+++ b/security/keys/Kconfig
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ config BIG_KEYS
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_AES
select CRYPTO_ECB
- select CRYPTO_RNG
+ select CRYPTO_ANSI_CPRNG
help
This option provides support for holding large keys within the kernel
(for example Kerberos ticket caches). The data may be stored out to