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Date:	Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:53:57 +0100
From:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2] pcrypt: handle crypto_get_attr_type() errors

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:53:19PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>  
> -static struct crypto_instance *pcrypt_alloc_aead(struct rtattr **tb)
> +static struct crypto_instance *pcrypt_alloc_aead(struct rtattr **tb,
> +						 struct crypto_attr_type *algt)
>  {
>  	struct crypto_instance *inst;
>  	struct crypto_alg *alg;
> -	struct crypto_attr_type *algt;
> -
> -	algt = crypto_get_attr_type(tb);
>  
>  	alg = crypto_get_attr_alg(tb, algt->type,
>  				  (algt->mask & CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_MASK));
> @@ -365,7 +363,7 @@ static struct crypto_instance *pcrypt_alloc(struct rtattr **tb)
>  
>  	switch (algt->type & algt->mask & CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_MASK) {
>  	case CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_AEAD:
> -		return pcrypt_alloc_aead(tb);
> +		return pcrypt_alloc_aead(tb, algt);
>  	}
>  

I thought about passing the type and mask values separately to
pcrypt_alloc_aead, like type and mask values are passed to
crypto_get_attr_alg. This is the usual way to do this in the
crypto layer.

Thanks,

Steffen
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