crypto: algif_aead - fix AEAD tag memory handling
For encryption, the AEAD ciphers require AAD || PT as input and generate AAD || CT || Tag as output and vice versa for decryption. Prior to this patch, the AF_ALG interface for AEAD ciphers requires the buffer to be present as input for encryption. Similarly, the output buffer for decryption required the presence of the tag buffer too. This implies that the kernel reads / writes data buffers from/to kernel space even though this operation is not required. This patch changes the AF_ALG AEAD interface to be consistent with the in-kernel AEAD cipher requirements. Due to this handling, he changes are transparent to user space with one exception: the return code of recv indicates the mount of output buffer. That output buffer has a different size compared to before the patch which implies that the return code of recv will also be different. For example, a decryption operation uses 16 bytes AAD, 16 bytes CT and 16 bytes tag, the AF_ALG AEAD interface before showed a recv return code of 48 (bytes) whereas after this patch, the return code is 32 since the tag is not returned any more. Reported-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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