linux-kernel - [PATCH v7 10/13] crypto: ecdsa - Rename keylen to bufsize where necessary

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Message-ID: <20240320114725.1644921-11-stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 07:47:22 -0400
From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
To: keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, davem@...emloft.net
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, saulo.alessandre@....jus.br, lukas@...ner.de,
        bbhushan2@...vell.com, jarkko@...nel.org,
        Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v7 10/13] crypto: ecdsa - Rename keylen to bufsize where necessary

In cases where 'keylen' was referring to the size of the buffer used by
a curve's digits, it does not reflect the purpose of the variable anymore
once NIST P521 is used. What it refers to then is the size of the buffer,
which may be a few bytes larger than the size a coordinate of a key.
Therefore, rename keylen to bufsize where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>
---
 crypto/ecdsa.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crypto/ecdsa.c b/crypto/ecdsa.c
index 4daefb40c37a..4e847b59622a 100644
--- a/crypto/ecdsa.c
+++ b/crypto/ecdsa.c
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ struct ecdsa_signature_ctx {
 static int ecdsa_get_signature_rs(u64 *dest, size_t hdrlen, unsigned char tag,
 				  const void *value, size_t vlen, unsigned int ndigits)
 {
-	size_t keylen = ndigits * sizeof(u64);
-	ssize_t diff = vlen - keylen;
+	size_t bufsize = ndigits * sizeof(u64);
+	ssize_t diff = vlen - bufsize;
 	const char *d = value;
 	u8 rs[ECC_MAX_BYTES];
 
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static int ecdsa_get_signature_rs(u64 *dest, size_t hdrlen, unsigned char tag,
 		if (diff)
 			return -EINVAL;
 	}
-	if (-diff >= keylen)
+	if (-diff >= bufsize)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (diff) {
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static int ecdsa_verify(struct akcipher_request *req)
 {
 	struct crypto_akcipher *tfm = crypto_akcipher_reqtfm(req);
 	struct ecc_ctx *ctx = akcipher_tfm_ctx(tfm);
-	size_t keylen = ctx->curve->g.ndigits * sizeof(u64);
+	size_t bufsize = ctx->curve->g.ndigits * sizeof(u64);
 	struct ecdsa_signature_ctx sig_ctx = {
 		.curve = ctx->curve,
 	};
@@ -165,14 +165,14 @@ static int ecdsa_verify(struct akcipher_request *req)
 		goto error;
 
 	/* if the hash is shorter then we will add leading zeros to fit to ndigits */
-	diff = keylen - req->dst_len;
+	diff = bufsize - req->dst_len;
 	if (diff >= 0) {
 		if (diff)
 			memset(rawhash, 0, diff);
 		memcpy(&rawhash[diff], buffer + req->src_len, req->dst_len);
 	} else if (diff < 0) {
 		/* given hash is longer, we take the left-most bytes */
-		memcpy(&rawhash, buffer + req->src_len, keylen);
+		memcpy(&rawhash, buffer + req->src_len, bufsize);
 	}
 
 	ecc_swap_digits((u64 *)rawhash, hash, ctx->curve->g.ndigits);
-- 
2.43.0