On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 04:30:06PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Herbert,
>
> unexpectedly after updating to 5.16 on one of my systems (the 1st one
> I tried) btrfs.ko would not load anymore. Since this did happen before,
> I inspected module dependencies, but they were all fine. Nevertheless
> it was libcrc32c.ko which actually failed to load, but the error
> ("Accessing a corrupted shared library") wasn't very helpful. Until I
> spotted crypto_alg_lookup(), and "only" a few steps I found this commit
> of yours. The problem, ultimately, is that all of the sudden
> cryptomgr.ko needs to be available in initrd. Without any module having
> a dependency on it, it wouldn't get pulled in automatically. And there
> was no need for it before (until later in the boot process, when / was
> already mounted).
>
> Can this be addressed in some way, i.e. is there a way to re-work your
> change to remove the dependency again?
Can you send me your .config file please?
Thanks,
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