From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Biggers Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 16:16:42 +0000 Subject: Re: [BACKPORT 4.14.y v2 5/6] ppp: mppe: Revert "ppp: mppe: Add softdep to arc4" Message-Id: <20190905161642.GA5659@google.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Baolin Wang Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org, linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, orsonzhai@gmail.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 11:10:45AM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote: > From: Eric Biggers > > [Upstream commit 25a09ce79639a8775244808c17282c491cff89cf] > > Commit 0e5a610b5ca5 ("ppp: mppe: switch to RC4 library interface"), > which was merged through the crypto tree for v5.3, changed ppp_mppe.c to > use the new arc4_crypt() library function rather than access RC4 through > the dynamic crypto_skcipher API. > > Meanwhile commit aad1dcc4f011 ("ppp: mppe: Add softdep to arc4") was > merged through the net tree and added a module soft-dependency on "arc4". > > The latter commit no longer makes sense because the code now uses the > "libarc4" module rather than "arc4", and also due to the direct use of > arc4_crypt(), no module soft-dependency is required. > > So revert the latter commit. > > Cc: Takashi Iwai > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller > Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang > --- > drivers/net/ppp/ppp_mppe.c | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_mppe.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_mppe.c > index d9eda7c..6c7fd98 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_mppe.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_mppe.c > @@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Point-to-Point Protocol Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption support"); > MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL"); > MODULE_ALIAS("ppp-compress-" __stringify(CI_MPPE)); > -MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: arc4"); Why is this being backported? This revert was only needed because of a different patch that was merged in v5.3, as I explained in the commit message. - Eric