error: storage size of ‘ctx’ isn’t known

[mihai-morman]

/bin/sh ../../../libtool --silent  --tag=CC   --mode=compile cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../..  -I../../../include   -g -O2 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99 -pedantic -Wformat -Wformat-nonliteral -MT lanplus_crypt_impl.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/lanplus_crypt_impl.Tpo -c -o lanplus_crypt_impl.lo lanplus_crypt_impl.c
lanplus_crypt_impl.c: In function ‘lanplus_encrypt_aes_cbc_128’:
lanplus_crypt_impl.c:167:17: error: storage size of ‘ctx’ isn’t known
  167 |  EVP_CIPHER_CTX ctx;
      |                 ^~~
lanplus_crypt_impl.c:167:17: warning: unused variable ‘ctx’ [-Wunused-variable]
lanplus_crypt_impl.c: In function ‘lanplus_decrypt_aes_cbc_128’:
lanplus_crypt_impl.c:242:17: error: storage size of ‘ctx’ isn’t known
  242 |  EVP_CIPHER_CTX ctx;
      |                 ^~~
lanplus_crypt_impl.c:242:17: warning: unused variable ‘ctx’ [-Wunused-variable]

Hello!

I got that error after trying to install various versions of ipmitool on manjaro linux.
The above error is from ipmitool-1.8.18.tar.gz
I've tried also ipmitool versions 1.8.15, 1.8.17, with the same results.
What i did is:
./configure
make

My current kernel i 4.19.78-1-MANJARO.

I also want to point that ipmitool-1.8.18 works fine if i use pacman to install it.
I have some problems when uploading a firmware update using fwum
I am getting Segmentation Fault:
Segmentation fault (core dumped) 0 %
Segmentation fault (core dumped)###################################### 99 %

So i wanted to try older versions.

[AlexanderAmelkin]

What i did is:
./configure
make

Please read README and retry as described there.

[AlexanderAmelkin]

Sorry, I meant INSTALL, not README.

[HarpPDX]

I'm running into the same error. According to this (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55992010/openssl-error-storage-size-of-ctx-isn-t-known), the issue is caused by a change in the openssl library.

I'm on Ubuntu 18.04, w/ gcc 7.4 and openssl 1.1.1.

I ran:

./bootstrap
./configure
make

I get:

<snip>
Making all in lanplus
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/me/ipmitool/src/plugins/lanplus'
/bin/bash ../../../libtool --silent  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../..  -I../../../include   -g -O2 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99 -pedantic -Wformat -Wformat-nonliteral -MT lanplus_crypt_impl.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/lanplus_crypt_impl.Tpo -c -o lanplus_crypt_impl.lo lanplus_crypt_impl.c
lanplus_crypt_impl.c: In function ‘lanplus_encrypt_aes_cbc_128’:
lanplus_crypt_impl.c:167:17: error: storage size of ‘ctx’ isn’t known
  EVP_CIPHER_CTX ctx;
                 ^~~
lanplus_crypt_impl.c:167:17: warning: unused variable ‘ctx’ [-Wunused-variable]
lanplus_crypt_impl.c: In function ‘lanplus_decrypt_aes_cbc_128’:
lanplus_crypt_impl.c:242:17: error: storage size of ‘ctx’ isn’t known
  EVP_CIPHER_CTX ctx;
                 ^~~
lanplus_crypt_impl.c:242:17: warning: unused variable ‘ctx’ [-Wunused-variable]
Makefile:441: recipe for target 'lanplus_crypt_impl.lo' failed
<snip>

[junlizhang]

Using EVP_CIPHER_CTX pionter implementation instead, IPMITOOL_1_8_18 and OpenSSL 1.1.1d verified.
lanplus_crypt_impl.txt

[HaoyuRuan]

//EVP_CIPHER_CTX ctx;
EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx;
ctx = EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new();

[elfosardo]

The fix is in master but unfortunately not in IPMITOOL_1_8_18, any chance to get a new release soon?

[AlexanderAmelkin]

This has been fixed back in 2017 by commit 77fe563. Closing.

[hlfritz]

This may have resurfaced now in latest download today as I could not compile until I made the changes referenced above:

77fe563