diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
index 70f4e65fced233613746e33422cf6efa4e9b0ea0..956dd85d7aef98a4749c7e0adff5dbee149c76bc 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
@@ -1365,5 +1365,17 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION
     ("VFS to access servers complying with the SNIA CIFS Specification "
      "e.g. Samba and Windows");
 MODULE_VERSION(CIFS_VERSION);
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: arc4");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: des");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: ecb");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: hmac");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: md4");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: md5");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: nls");
+#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_SMB2
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: aes");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: cmac");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: sha256");
+#endif /* CONFIG_CIFS_SMB2 */
 module_init(init_cifs)
 module_exit(exit_cifs)