[PATCH] crypto: remove md4 driver

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Fri Oct 13 03:39:20 PDT 2023


On Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 05:01:39AM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> No internal users left and cryptographically insecure. Users should
> upgrade to something else, e.g. sha256 blake3.
> 
> Some drivers have their own full or partial md4 implementation without
> using crypto/md4.
> 
> Userspace code search indicates a few copies of hash_info.h
> https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=HASH_ALGO_MD4&literal=1 without
> need for MD4.
> 
> Preserve uapi hash algorithm indexes and array length, but rename the
> MD4 enum.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov at canonical.com>
> ---
>  crypto/Kconfig                 |   6 -
>  crypto/Makefile                |   1 -
>  crypto/hash_info.c             |   4 +-
>  crypto/md4.c                   | 241 ---------------------------------
>  crypto/tcrypt.c                |  12 --
>  crypto/testmgr.c               |   6 -
>  crypto/testmgr.h               |  42 ------
>  include/uapi/linux/hash_info.h |   2 +-
>  8 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 311 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 crypto/md4.c

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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