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

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 5:53 PM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2/22/21 8:46 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> > There is nearly 1000 places that use a 'select CRYPTO_*' in the
> > kernel.
> >
> > I see only 60 'select CRYPTO' statements.

I think most of these are correct, as you typically have a single
'select CRYPTO'
in combination with a couple of 'select CRYPTO_*' ones for the specific
algorithms. I just added a lot of 'select CRC32' statements to deal with
all the build failures in drivers that require this but fail to have an extra
select statement. The way I got the list was to start with 'make allmodconfig'
and then recursively disable everything that had an explicit select, until
I was left with all the modules that need it without selecting it.

The same method could be used for CONFIG_CRYPTO, but it's a few
hours of work.

> Correct. :(
> We (community) tend to fix bug reports, not do global audits
> to see what needs to be fixed (with a few exceptions).
>
>
> I'll gladly wait to see what Arnd says.

For the specific case of CRC32, it might actually a good idea to change
the code to call into the CRC32 code directly instead of the CRYPTO_CRC32
abstraction. Would that work for RDMA_RXE?

       Arnd