linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] crypto: make the sha1 library optional

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Date:   Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:18:45 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] crypto: make the sha1 library optional

On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 11:22 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat,  9 Jul 2022 14:18:49 -0700 Eric Biggers wrote:
> > Since the Linux RNG no longer uses sha1_transform(), the SHA-1 library
> > is no longer needed unconditionally.  Make it possible to build the
> > Linux kernel without the SHA-1 library by putting it behind a kconfig
> > option, and selecting this new option from the kconfig options that gate
> > the remaining users: CRYPTO_SHA1 for crypto/sha1_generic.c, BPF for
> > kernel/bpf/core.c, and IPV6 for net/ipv6/addrconf.c.
> >
> > Unfortunately, since BPF is selected by NET, for now this can only make
> > a difference for kernels built without networking support.
>
> > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> > index c984afc489dead..d8d0b4bdfe4195 100644
> > --- a/init/Kconfig
> > +++ b/init/Kconfig
> > @@ -1472,6 +1472,7 @@ config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
> >  # interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
> >  config BPF
> >       bool
> > +     select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1
> >
>
> Let's give it an explicit CC: bpf@
>
> > diff --git a/net/ipv6/Kconfig b/net/ipv6/Kconfig
> > index bf2e5e5fe14273..658bfed1df8b17 100644
> > --- a/net/ipv6/Kconfig
> > +++ b/net/ipv6/Kconfig
> > @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
> >  menuconfig IPV6
> >       tristate "The IPv6 protocol"
> >       default y
> > +     select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1
> >       help
> >         Support for IP version 6 (IPv6).
>
> FWIW:
> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>

I believe I found the right full patch set in lore.
In the future (if there are follow ups)
please cc the full patchset to us.
Thanks!