This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled crypto: xts - Add softdep on ecb to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: crypto-xts-add-softdep-on-ecb.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 6e25d7742cb8f35d4a2db3e30d6874405be59709 Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 10 13:09:40 2022 +1100 crypto: xts - Add softdep on ecb [ Upstream commit dfe085d8dcd0bb1fe20cc2327e81c8064cead441 ] The xts module needs ecb to be present as it's meant to work on top of ecb. This patch adds a softdep so ecb can be included automatically into the initramfs. Reported-by: rftc <rftc@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/crypto/xts.c b/crypto/xts.c index 6c12f30dbdd6..63c85b9e64e0 100644 --- a/crypto/xts.c +++ b/crypto/xts.c @@ -466,3 +466,4 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("XTS block cipher mode"); MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("xts"); MODULE_IMPORT_NS(CRYPTO_INTERNAL); +MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: ecb");