[PATCH 1/2] crypto: jitterentropy - always select CRYPTO_RNG
Herbert Xu
herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Tue Jan 26 02:30:18 PST 2016
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 05:50:34PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> When building the jitterentropy driver by itself, we get a link error
> when CRYPTO_RNG is not enabled as well:
>
> crypto/built-in.o: In function `jent_mod_init':
> jitterentropy-kcapi.c:(.init.text+0x98): undefined reference to `crypto_register_rng'
> crypto/built-in.o: In function `jent_mod_exit':
> jitterentropy-kcapi.c:(.exit.text+0x60): undefined reference to `crypto_unregister_rng'
>
> This moves the 'select CRYPTO_RNG' from CRYPTO_DRBG to CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY
> to ensure the API is always there when it's used, not just when DRBG is
> also enabled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---
> crypto/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig
> index 7240821137fd..99109b93604a 100644
> --- a/crypto/Kconfig
> +++ b/crypto/Kconfig
> @@ -1586,13 +1586,13 @@ config CRYPTO_DRBG_CTR
> config CRYPTO_DRBG
> tristate
> default CRYPTO_DRBG_MENU
> - select CRYPTO_RNG
I think we should leave this there as DRBG itself is an RNG and
it just uses JITTERENTROPY which happens to be an RNG.
Otherwise this looks OK to me.
Thanks,
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