linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/18] crypto: dh - constify struct dh's pointer members

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Message-ID: <70ff24ff-94ce-6391-df7b-76f06bb7b48f@suse.de>
Date:   Wed, 1 Dec 2021 08:13:05 +0100
From:   Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:     Nicolai Stange <nstange@...e.de>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Stephan Müller <smueller@...onox.de>,
        Torsten Duwe <duwe@...e.de>, Zaibo Xu <xuzaibo@...wei.com>,
        Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@...el.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        qat-linux@...el.com, keyrings@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] crypto: dh - constify struct dh's pointer members

On 12/1/21 1:48 AM, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> struct dh contains several pointer members corresponding to DH parameters:
> ->key, ->p and ->g. A subsequent commit will make the struct dh
> deserialization function, crypto_dh_decode_key(), to set these to
> constant static storage arrays for some of the well-known safe-prime
> groups.
> 
> Turn the struct dh pointer members' types into "pointer to const" in
> preparation for this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@...e.de>
> ---
>   include/crypto/dh.h | 6 +++---
>   security/keys/dh.c  | 2 +-
>   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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