linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 16/37] cryptoloop: add a deprecation warning

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Message-Id: <20210910122917.706490236@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:30:19 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 16/37] cryptoloop: add a deprecation warning

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

[ Upstream commit 222013f9ac30b9cec44301daa8dbd0aae38abffb ]

Support for cryptoloop has been officially marked broken and deprecated
in favor of dm-crypt (which supports the same broken algorithms if
needed) in Linux 2.6.4 (released in March 2004), and support for it has
been entirely removed from losetup in util-linux 2.23 (released in April
2013).  Add a warning and a deprecation schedule.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210827163250.255325-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/block/Kconfig      | 4 ++--
 drivers/block/cryptoloop.c | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
index 0fc27ac14f29..9f6782329a23 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT
 	  dynamically allocated with the /dev/loop-control interface.
 
 config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP
-	tristate "Cryptoloop Support"
+	tristate "Cryptoloop Support (DEPRECATED)"
 	select CRYPTO
 	select CRYPTO_CBC
 	depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP
 	  WARNING: This device is not safe for journaled file systems like
 	  ext3 or Reiserfs. Please use the Device Mapper crypto module
 	  instead, which can be configured to be on-disk compatible with the
-	  cryptoloop device.
+	  cryptoloop device.  cryptoloop support will be removed in Linux 5.16.
 
 source "drivers/block/drbd/Kconfig"
 
diff --git a/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c b/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c
index 3cabc335ae74..f0a91faa43a8 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c
@@ -189,6 +189,8 @@ init_cryptoloop(void)
 
 	if (rc)
 		printk(KERN_ERR "cryptoloop: loop_register_transfer failed\n");
+	else
+		pr_warn("the cryptoloop driver has been deprecated and will be removed in in Linux 5.16\n");
 	return rc;
 }
 
-- 
2.30.2