[PATCH] ksmbd: select CRYPTO_AES

[PATCH] ksmbd: select CRYPTO_AES

[Michail Andreas Michalopoulos]

ksmbd allocates "gcm(aes)" and "ccm(aes)" AEAD transforms for SMB3
encryption, but SMB_SERVER only selects CRYPTO_GCM and CRYPTO_CCM, not
an AES cipher. With a configuration in which nothing else enables
CRYPTO_AES, ksmbd builds but cannot allocate the transforms, and every
session that uses encryption fails:

  ksmbd: Failed to alloc encrypt aead : -2
  ksmbd: crypto alloc failed

Select CRYPTO_AES, as the SMB client already does.

Fixes: a848c4f15ab6 ("cifsd: add Kconfig and Makefile")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Michail Andreas Michalopoulos <mike.michalo@gmail.com>
---
On x86_64, defconfig plus SMB_SERVER=y ends up with CRYPTO_AES unset
once MAC80211, XFRM_ESP and CRYPTO_KRB5 are disabled; with this patch
olddefconfig enables it. Without CRYPTO_AES, ksmbd logs the messages
above when a client negotiates encryption (seen under UML on
ksmbd-for-next f75c93278608), and with CRYPTO_AES the same client
connects. Distribution configs already enable CRYPTO_AES, so this only
affects custom configs.

The smbtorture smb2 tests run here (dir, create, getinfo, setinfo,
rename, compound, streams, dosmode, read, lock) passed on the kernel
without CRYPTO_AES, as they do not negotiate encryption by default.

 fs/smb/server/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/smb/server/Kconfig b/fs/smb/server/Kconfig
index b7665e0e494..f8b03605db5 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/smb/server/Kconfig
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ config SMB_SERVER
 	select CRYPTO_AEAD2
 	select CRYPTO_CCM
 	select CRYPTO_GCM
+	select CRYPTO_AES
 	select ASN1
 	select OID_REGISTRY
 	select CRC32
-- 
2.43.0

Re: [PATCH] ksmbd: select CRYPTO_AES

[Namjae Jeon]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 9:40 AM Michail Andreas Michalopoulos
<mike.michalo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ksmbd allocates "gcm(aes)" and "ccm(aes)" AEAD transforms for SMB3
> encryption, but SMB_SERVER only selects CRYPTO_GCM and CRYPTO_CCM, not
> an AES cipher. With a configuration in which nothing else enables
> CRYPTO_AES, ksmbd builds but cannot allocate the transforms, and every
> session that uses encryption fails:
>
>   ksmbd: Failed to alloc encrypt aead : -2
>   ksmbd: crypto alloc failed
>
> Select CRYPTO_AES, as the SMB client already does.
>
> Fixes: a848c4f15ab6 ("cifsd: add Kconfig and Makefile")
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Michail Andreas Michalopoulos <mike.michalo@gmail.com>
Applied it to #ksmbd-for-next.
Thanks!