On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:56:39 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Support for cyrptoloop 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). The XOR transfer has never been more than a toy to demonstrate
> the transfer in the bad old times of crypto export restrictions.
> Remove them as they have some nasty interactions with loop device life
> times due to the iteration over all loop devices in
> loop_unregister_transfer.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] block: remove support for cryptoloop and the xor transfer
commit: 47e9624616c80c9879feda536c48c6a3a0ed9835
Best regards,
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Jens Axboe
