netdev - [IPSEC]: Use digest_null directly for auth

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Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:17:47 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [IPSEC]: Use digest_null directly for auth

Hi Dave:

This patch is a minor optimisation to avoid using hmac on null
authentication when explicitly specified by the user.

[IPSEC]: Use digest_null directly for auth

Previously digest_null had no setkey function which meant that
we used hmac(digest_null) for IPsec since IPsec always calls
setkey.  Now that digest_null has a setkey we no longer need to
do that.

In fact when only confidentiality is specified for ESP we already
use digest_null directly.  However, when the null algorithm is
explicitly specified by the user we still opt for hmac(digest_null).

This patch removes this discrepancy.  I have not added a new compat
name for it because by chance it wasn't actualy possible for the user
to specify the name hmac(digest_null) due to a key length check in
xfrm_user (which I found out when testing that compat name :)

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

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diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c
index 8aa6440..ac765dd 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c
@@ -129,8 +129,7 @@ static struct xfrm_algo_desc aead_list[] = {

 static struct xfrm_algo_desc aalg_list[] = {
 {
-	.name = "hmac(digest_null)",
-	.compat = "digest_null",
+	.name = "digest_null",

 	.uinfo = {
 		.auth = {
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