[OE-core] [PATCH] openssl: disable cryptodev by default

Mark Hatle mark.hatle at windriver.com
Wed Mar 8 17:28:07 UTC 2017


On 3/8/17 10:57 AM, Ross Burton wrote:
> Cryptodev is a way for userspace to access the kernel crypto drivers (and so,
> hardware crypto).

If the BSP does not support crypto dev, what is the harm in this?  It should
fall back to standard behaviors.

> Not all hardware supports cryptodev so this is something that should be enabled
> in a BSP layer instead of in oe-core.

This would make the package be machine specific, which I'm not sure is good for
a package like openssl.  (Distro specific, I'm fine with -- machine I've got
concerns.)

--Mark

> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc       | 2 ++
>  meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl_1.0.2k.bb | 5 -----
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc
> index 9afa5bd..03dee0e 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc
> @@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-${PV}.tar.gz \
>            "
>  S = "${WORKDIR}/openssl-${PV}"
>  
> +PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
>  PACKAGECONFIG[perl] = ",,,"
> +PACKAGECONFIG[cryptodev] = "-DHAVE_CRYPTODEV -DUSE_CRYPTODEV_DIGESTS,-UHAVE_CRYPTODEV,cryptodev-linux"
>  
>  AR_append = " r"
>  TERMIO_libc-musl = "-DTERMIOS"
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl_1.0.2k.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl_1.0.2k.bb
> index 1973f81..4436ba3 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl_1.0.2k.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl_1.0.2k.bb
> @@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
>  require openssl.inc
>  
> -# For target side versions of openssl enable support for OCF Linux driver
> -# if they are available.
> -DEPENDS += "cryptodev-linux"
> -
> -CFLAG += "-DHAVE_CRYPTODEV -DUSE_CRYPTODEV_DIGESTS"
>  CFLAG_append_class-native = " -fPIC"
>  
>  LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=27ffa5d74bb5a337056c14b2ef93fbf6"
> 




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