[dm-devel] [PATCH v6 3/7] md: dm-crypt: infer ESSIV block cipher from cipher string directly
Milan Broz
gmazyland at gmail.com
Mon Jul 1 08:58:47 UTC 2019
On 28/06/2019 17:21, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Instead of allocating a crypto skcipher tfm 'foo' and attempting to
> infer the encapsulated block cipher from the driver's 'name' field,
> directly parse the string that we used to allocated the tfm. These
> are always identical (unless the allocation failed, in which case
> we bail anyway), but using the string allows us to use it in the
> allocation, which is something we will need when switching to the
> 'essiv' crypto API template.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 35 +++++++++-----------
> @@ -2445,21 +2451,10 @@ static int crypt_ctr_cipher_new(struct dm_target *ti, char *cipher_in, char *key
>
> /* Alloc AEAD, can be used only in new format. */
^^ This comment is now obsolete, please move it with the code or remove it.
> if (crypt_integrity_aead(cc)) {
> - ret = crypt_ctr_auth_cipher(cc, cipher_api);
> - if (ret < 0) {
> - ti->error = "Invalid AEAD cipher spec";
> - return -ENOMEM;
> - }
> cc->iv_size = crypto_aead_ivsize(any_tfm_aead(cc));
> } else
> cc->iv_size = crypto_skcipher_ivsize(any_tfm(cc));
Otherwise
Reviewed-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland at gmail.com>
Thanks,
Milan
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