linux-kernel - Re: XTS Crypto Not Found In /proc/crypto Even After Compiled for 4.10.1.

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Date:   Fri, 3 Mar 2017 17:33:44 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Nathan Royce <nroycea@...il.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: XTS Crypto Not Found In /proc/crypto Even After Compiled for
 4.10.1.

On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 03:00:26AM -0600, Nathan Royce wrote:
> OK, I went ahead and enabled self tests
> "CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS=n", and my system was able to boot,
> albeit with failures:
> *****
> Mar 02 23:14:38 server kernel: ---[ end trace 1c8a91f28cbcebf3 ]---
> Mar 02 23:14:38 server kernel: alg: skcipher: encryption failed on
> test 1 for xts(ecb-aes-s5p): ret=35
> Mar 02 23:14:38 server kernel: device-mapper: table: 254:0: crypt:
> Error allocating crypto tfm
> Mar 02 23:14:38 server kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding
> target to table
> Mar 02 23:14:39 server systemd-cryptsetup[234]: Failed to activate
> with key file '/dev/urandom': Invalid argument
> *****
> (weird that it asked for the passphrase)
> 
> But I do question whether the root issue is related to s5p... Maybe
> there is a correlation in the warning, but to me it looks like the
> issue is something else.

I see.  Do you have ECB enabled in your config? The new XTS requires
ECB to be present so that could be your problem.

There is already a patch on its way to stable to add the Kconfig
select on ECB.

Cheers,
-- 
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