[PATCH 5.10 21/29] cryptoloop: add a deprecation warning
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-09-06 12:57:29
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.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@lst.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210827163250.255325-1-hch@lst.de (local) Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.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 f40ebe9f5047..f2548049aa0e 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; }
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