Re: simd ciphers

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 11:00:51AM +0100, Stephan Müller wrote:
>
> When I configure AES-NI as module, it works. When compiling it statically, the 
> allocation returns an -ENOENT. 
> 
> Now, when I diff both config files after a simple toggle from AES-NI=y to =m I 
> see (linux-4.10.config contains the static config, .config contains the module 
> configuration):

Thanks Stephan! Does this patch help?

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Subject: crypto: pcbc - Move pcbc registration up to subsys_initcall

The pcbc template is required by aesni.  As aesni registers itself
at late_initcall, we have to make sure pcbc is registered before
that.

This patch moves it to subsys_initcall like cryptd.

Fixes: 85671860caac ("crypto: aesni - Convert to skcipher")
Reported-by: Stephan Müller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/crypto/pcbc.c b/crypto/pcbc.c
index e4538e0..0855c61 100644
--- a/crypto/pcbc.c
+++ b/crypto/pcbc.c
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ static void __exit crypto_pcbc_module_exit(void)
 	crypto_unregister_template(&crypto_pcbc_tmpl);
 }
 
-module_init(crypto_pcbc_module_init);
+subsys_initcall(crypto_pcbc_module_init);
 module_exit(crypto_pcbc_module_exit);
 
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
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