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authorChristoph Hellwig2021-08-27 18:32:50 +0200
committerJens Axboe2021-08-27 10:44:54 -0600
commit222013f9ac30b9cec44301daa8dbd0aae38abffb (patch)
tree70bc380de2f09a35bee7df6b3655d94bf6147d78 /drivers
parent3375dca0b542c747d29655cf52f7b2741ecebe0e (diff)
cryptoloop: add a deprecation warning
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 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/Kconfig4
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/cryptoloop.c2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
index 63056cfd4b62..fbb3a558139f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ 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
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ 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;
}