On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 03:45:07PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 12:43:41PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On 5 September 2018 at 21:24, Eric Biggers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > fscrypt doesn't use the CTR mode of operation for anything, so there's
> > > no need to select CRYPTO_CTR. It was added by commit 71dea01ea2ed
> > > ("ext4 crypto: require CONFIG_CRYPTO_CTR if ext4 encryption is
> > > enabled"). But, I've been unable to identify the arm64 crypto bug it
> > > was supposedly working around.
> > >
> > > I suspect the issue was seen only on some old Android device kernel
> > > (circa 3.10?). So if the fix wasn't mistaken, the real bug is probably
> > > already fixed. Or maybe it was actually a bug in a non-upstream crypto
> > > driver.
> > >
> > > So, remove the dependency. If it turns out there's actually still a
> > > bug, we'll fix it properly.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
> >
> > Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Thanks, applied.
- Ted
