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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	keyrings@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] sign-file: Use OpenSSL provided define to compile out deprecated APIs
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 10:25:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YVyKc51r2tfMmQuO@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL9PXLws4DjvPB=1KNpom3W52pXNauXQ4V==MprDx73YQ1-sgg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 10:14:58AM -0700, Adam Langley wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 10:01 AM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> wrote:
> > I ran into these same -Wdeprecated-declarations compiler warnings on another
> > project that uses the ENGINE API to access OpenSSL's support for PKCS#11 tokens.
> > The conclusion was that in OpenSSL 3.0, the new API for PKCS#11 support isn't
> > actually ready yet, so we had to keep using the ENGINE API and just add
> > -Wno-deprecated-declarations to the compiler flags.
> >
> > Your patch just removes support for PKCS#11 in that case, which seems
> > undesirable.  (Unless no one is actually using it?)
> 
> The patch removes support when OPENSSL_NO_ENGINE is defined, but
> that's not defined by default in OpenSSL 3.0. (Unless something
> changed recently.)
> 
> When OPENSSL_NO_ENGINE is defined, ENGINE support is not compiled into
> OpenSSL and the headers don't include the functions:
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/include/openssl/engine.h
> .

Okay so this patch is actually a build fix for when OpenSSL doesn't include
ENGINE support?  Currently this patch claims that it's removing the use of a
"deprecated" API, which is something entirely different.

- Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-05 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-05 16:18 [PATCH 1/1] sign-file: Use OpenSSL provided define to compile out deprecated APIs Lee Jones
2021-10-05 17:01 ` Eric Biggers
2021-10-05 17:14   ` Adam Langley
2021-10-05 17:25     ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2021-10-05 17:33       ` Adam Langley
2021-10-05 18:11       ` Lee Jones
2022-03-02 20:52         ` Kees Cook
2022-03-03  9:26           ` Lee Jones
2022-03-03 18:05             ` Kees Cook
2022-03-08 10:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] sign-file: Do not attempt to use the ENGINE_* API if it's not available Lee Jones
2022-03-10 16:51   ` Kees Cook
2022-03-10 17:15     ` Adam Langley
2022-05-15  7:16     ` Salvatore Bonaccorso
2022-05-15  9:40       ` Lee Jones
2022-05-16 15:39         ` Shuah Khan

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