Re: [PATCH] crypto: AF_ALG - add support for keys/asymmetric-type

Hi Stephan,
On 12/21/2015 01:27 PM, Stephan Mueller wrote:

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@@ -192,7 +194,30 @@ static int alg_setkey(struct sock *sk, char __user

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*ukey, if (copy_from_user(key, ukey, keylen))
 		goto out;

-	err = setkey(ask->private, key, keylen);
+	if (key_id) {

Wouldn't it make sense to rather have a complete separate function for setting 
the key based on the ID? I.e. we have one function for setting the key based 
on a user-given buffer. A second function handles your additional code. As 
both are unrelated, I would not suggest to clutter one function with the logic 
of the other.

Either way is fine with me. I just didn't want to have too many indentation
levels in the alg_setsockopt function.

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-		err = alg_setkey(sk, optval, optlen, type->setkey);

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+		/* ALG_SET_KEY_ID is only for akcipher */
+		if (!strcmp(type->name, "akcipher") && key_id)

Why do you want to limit it to akcipher? I would think it can apply to all 
types of keys. You mention that you want to restrict it to akcipher, but where 
do you see the limitation for HMAC / skcipher?

I pass key_type_asymmetric to request_key(), which only works with asymmetric.
To enable symmetric we would need to have a new key type, which would handle
both. 
Thanks,
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TS