[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "crypto: crc32c - Fix crc32c soft dependency" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    crypto: crc32c - Fix crc32c soft dependency

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 679243a73491df92dfab2941965582fe20aca487 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare at suse.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:06:05 +0100
Subject: crypto: crc32c - Fix crc32c soft dependency

commit fd7f6727102a1ccf6b4c1dfcc631f9b546526b26 upstream.

I don't think it makes sense for a module to have a soft dependency
on itself. This seems quite cyclic by nature and I can't see what
purpose it could serve.

OTOH libcrc32c calls crypto_alloc_shash("crc32c", 0, 0) so it pretty
much assumes that some incarnation of the "crc32c" hash algorithm has
been loaded. Therefore it makes sense to have the soft dependency
there (as crc-t10dif does.)

Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 crypto/crc32c_generic.c | 1 -
 lib/libcrc32c.c         | 1 +
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crypto/crc32c_generic.c b/crypto/crc32c_generic.c
index 06f1b60..4c0a0e2 100644
--- a/crypto/crc32c_generic.c
+++ b/crypto/crc32c_generic.c
@@ -172,4 +172,3 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CRC32c (Castagnoli) calculations wrapper for lib/crc32c");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("crc32c");
 MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("crc32c-generic");
-MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: crc32c");
diff --git a/lib/libcrc32c.c b/lib/libcrc32c.c
index 6a08ce7..acf9da4 100644
--- a/lib/libcrc32c.c
+++ b/lib/libcrc32c.c
@@ -74,3 +74,4 @@ module_exit(libcrc32c_mod_fini);
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Clay Haapala <chaapala at cisco.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CRC32c (Castagnoli) calculations");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: crc32c");
--
1.9.1