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    crypto: dh - split out deserialization code from crypto_dh_decode() · fae19893
    Nicolai Stange authored
    A subsequent commit will introduce "dh" wrapping templates of the form
    "ffdhe2048(dh)", "ffdhe3072(dh)" and so on in order to provide built-in
    support for the well-known safe-prime ffdhe group parameters specified in
    RFC 7919.
    
    Those templates' ->set_secret() will wrap the inner "dh" implementation's
    ->set_secret() and set the ->p and ->g group parameters as appropriate on
    the way inwards. More specifically,
    - A ffdheXYZ(dh) user would call crypto_dh_encode() on a struct dh instance
      having ->p == ->g == NULL as well as ->p_size == ->g_size == 0 and pass
      the resulting buffer to the outer ->set_secret().
    - This outer ->set_secret() would then decode the struct dh via
      crypto_dh_decode_key(), set ->p, ->g, ->p_size as well as ->g_size as
      appropriate for the group in question and encode the struct dh again
      before passing it further down to the inner "dh"'s ->set_secret().
    
    The problem is that crypto_dh_decode_key() implements some basic checks
    which would reject parameter sets with ->p_size == 0 and thus, the ffdheXYZ
    templates' ->set_secret() cannot use it as-is for decoding the passed
    buffer. As the inner "dh"'s ->set_secret() will eventually conduct said
    checks on the final parameter set anyway, the outer ->set_secret() really
    only needs the decoding functionality.
    
    Split out the pure struct dh decoding part from crypto_dh_decode_key() into
    the new __crypto_dh_decode_key().
    
    __crypto_dh_decode_key() gets defined in crypto/dh_helper.c, but will have
    to get called from crypto/dh.c and thus, its declaration must be somehow
    made available to the latter. Strictly speaking, __crypto_dh_decode_key()
    is internal to the dh_generic module, yet it would be a bit over the top
    to introduce a new header like e.g. include/crypto/internal/dh.h
    containing just a single prototype. Add the __crypto_dh_decode_key()
    declaration to include/crypto/dh.h instead.
    
    Provide a proper kernel-doc annotation, even though
    __crypto_dh_decode_key() is purposedly not on the function list specified
    in Documentation/crypto/api-kpp.rst.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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