Re: [PATCH] lib/crypto: arm64: Drop checks for CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON

["Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@kernel.org>]

On Sat, 14 Mar 2026, at 18:50, Eric Biggers wrote:
> CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON is always enabled on arm64, and it always has
> been since its introduction in 2013.  Given that and the fact that the
> usefulness of kernel-mode NEON has only been increasing over time,
> checking for this option in arm64-specific code is unnecessary.  Remove
> these checks from lib/crypto/ to simplify the code and prevent any
> future bugs where e.g. code gets disabled due to a typo in this logic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
> ---
>
> This patch is targeting libcrypto-next
> (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git/log/?h=libcrypto-next)
>
>  lib/crypto/Kconfig        | 12 ++++++------
>  lib/crypto/Makefile       | 17 ++++++-----------
>  lib/crypto/arm64/aes.h    | 16 ++++------------
>  lib/crypto/arm64/sha256.h |  8 ++------
>  lib/crypto/arm64/sha512.h |  5 +----
>  5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

Actually, we should just get rid of CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON entirely on arm64, although there is some code shared with ARM that would still need some checks. But anything that is arm64-only should never look at this at all.