linux-kernel - crypto: user - crypto_alg

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Date:	Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:25:05 +0100
From:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	steffen.klassert@...unet.com
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: crypto: user - crypto_alg_match removal

Hi Steffen, Herbert,

may I ask for the reasons why crypto_alg_match exists? Doesn't it 
implement crypto_alg_lookup -- and that not even complete? Is there a 
particular reason why this exact flag of crypto_alg_match is really 
needed in the context of crypto_user?

Unless there is such valid reason, may I ask whether we can remove 
crypto_alg_match and simply use crypto_alg_lookup in all instances where 
crypto_alg_match is invoked using the following replacement:

alg = crypto_alg_lookup(p->cru_name, p->cru_type, p->cru_mask)

The only problem with this replacement is that p->cru_driver_name is not 
considered with that. Do you think a double invocation of 
crypto_alg_lookup should be done or that even the user space interface 
should be changed such that cru_driver_name is removed from it?

Note, this change would now imply that crypto_user follows the kernel-
internal crypto API invocation approach.

Thanks
Stephan
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