Patch "crypto: public_key: select CRYPTO_AKCIPHER" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

crypto: public_key: select CRYPTO_AKCIPHER

to the 4.6-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-public_key-select-crypto_akcipher.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 16:55:56 +0200
Subject: crypto: public_key: select CRYPTO_AKCIPHER

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

commit bad6a185b4d6f81d0ed2b6e4c16307969f160b95 upstream.

In some rare randconfig builds, we can end up with ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE enabled but CRYPTO_AKCIPHER disabled, which fails to link because of the reference to crypto_alloc_akcipher:

crypto/built-in.o: In function `public_key_verify_signature':
:(.text+0x110e4): undefined reference to `crypto_alloc_akcipher'

This adds a Kconfig 'select' statement to ensure the dependency is always there.

---
 crypto/asymmetric_keys/Kconfig |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ config ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
 	tristate "Asymmetric public-key crypto algorithm subtype"
 	select MPILIB
 	select CRYPTO_HASH_INFO
+	select CRYPTO_AKCIPHER
 	help
 	  This option provides support for asymmetric public key type handling.
 	  If signature generation and/or verification are to be used,

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.6/crypto-public_key-select-crypto_akcipher.patch