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Commit a208fa8f authored by Eric Biggers's avatar Eric Biggers Committed by Herbert Xu
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crypto: hash - annotate algorithms taking optional key



We need to consistently enforce that keyed hashes cannot be used without
setting the key.  To do this we need a reliable way to determine whether
a given hash algorithm is keyed or not.  AF_ALG currently does this by
checking for the presence of a ->setkey() method.  However, this is
actually slightly broken because the CRC-32 algorithms implement
->setkey() but can also be used without a key.  (The CRC-32 "key" is not
actually a cryptographic key but rather represents the initial state.
If not overridden, then a default initial state is used.)

Prepare to fix this by introducing a flag CRYPTO_ALG_OPTIONAL_KEY which
indicates that the algorithm has a ->setkey() method, but it is not
required to be called.  Then set it on all the CRC-32 algorithms.

The same also applies to the Adler-32 implementation in Lustre.

Also, the cryptd and mcryptd templates have to pass through the flag
from their underlying algorithm.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
parent a16e772e
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