diff --git a/dpdk b/dpdk
index a8ba8524a..f112e7bac 160000
--- a/dpdk
+++ b/dpdk
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit a8ba8524ac5581b424dedd46c599eeeb27a90073
+Subproject commit f112e7bacd0f2a1e4f030674e3e009473f3f0c5d
diff --git a/dpdkbuild/Makefile b/dpdkbuild/Makefile
index 2515998fe..34d11e6f4 100644
--- a/dpdkbuild/Makefile
+++ b/dpdkbuild/Makefile
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_CRYPTO),y)
 ifeq ($(TARGET_MACHINE),x86_64)
 CRYPTO_ENABLED = y
 DPDK_OPTS += CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_AESNI_MB=y
-DPDK_OPTS += CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_CRYPTODEV=y
 DPDK_OPTS += CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_REORDER=y
 DPDK_OPTS += CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_QAT=y
 DPDK_OPTS += CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_QAT_SYM=y
@@ -59,7 +58,6 @@ endif
 ifeq ($(CRYPTO_ENABLED),n)
 DPDK_OPTS += CONFIG_RTE_EAL_IGB_UIO=n
 DPDK_OPTS += CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_AESNI_MB=n
-DPDK_OPTS += CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_CRYPTODEV=n
 DPDK_OPTS += CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_REORDER=n
 DPDK_OPTS += CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_QAT=n
 DPDK_OPTS += CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_QAT_SYM=n
diff --git a/lib/env_dpdk/env.mk b/lib/env_dpdk/env.mk
index ba956dbb3..663380963 100644
--- a/lib/env_dpdk/env.mk
+++ b/lib/env_dpdk/env.mk
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ endif
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_CRYPTO),y)
 DPDK_LIB_LIST += rte_cryptodev rte_reorder rte_bus_vdev rte_pmd_aesni_mb rte_pmd_qat rte_mbuf
+# crypto doesn't need this lib but because of DPDK API and PMD deps, we have to include it here
+# or the qat PMD won't build because we always build the compressdev API
+DPDK_LIB_LIST += rte_compressdev
 endif
 
 ifneq (, $(wildcard $(DPDK_ABS_DIR)/lib/librte_kvargs.*))