[PATCH] vhost: make cryptodev support optional

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Wed Oct 14 18:36:25 CEST 2026


On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 06:31:38PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> The vhost crypto part has seen CVEs in the past and is getting a lot of
> eyes those days.
> 
> Contrary to the vhost async datapath code, the cryptodev code seems to
> have active contributors, so dropping this code does not seem a good
> thing.
> 
> This change here allows to keep this support, yet disable it for
> uninterested parties.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>


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