[PATCH v7 5/5] crypto: add flag for unstable encoding

From: Benjamin Warnke
Date: Fri Apr 13 2018 - 11:49:42 EST


The data-format of zBeWalgo, and some other algorithms is unstable. To
identify such unstable algorithms this patch adds a new flag to the
crypto-api.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Warnke <4bwarnke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
crypto/zbewalgo.c | 2 +-
include/linux/crypto.h | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crypto/zbewalgo.c b/crypto/zbewalgo.c
index 9db0d43b..e57b5ced 100644
--- a/crypto/zbewalgo.c
+++ b/crypto/zbewalgo.c
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ static int zbewalgo_decompress_crypto_unsafe(struct crypto_tfm *tfm,

static struct crypto_alg crypto_alg_zbewalgo = {
.cra_name = "zbewalgo",
- .cra_flags = CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_COMPRESS,
+ .cra_flags = CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_COMPRESS | CRYPTO_ALG_UNSTABLE_ENCODING,
.cra_ctxsize = sizeof(struct zbewalgo_ctx),
.cra_module = THIS_MODULE,
.cra_init = zbewalgo_init,
diff --git a/include/linux/crypto.h b/include/linux/crypto.h
index 6bfb1aea..2228dd08 100644
--- a/include/linux/crypto.h
+++ b/include/linux/crypto.h
@@ -112,6 +112,12 @@
*/
#define CRYPTO_ALG_OPTIONAL_KEY 0x00004000

+/*
+ * Set if the algorithm is new and it is likely that the encoding may
+ * change in near future
+ */
+#define CRYPTO_ALG_UNSTABLE_ENCODING 0x00008000
+
/*
* Transform masks and values (for crt_flags).
*/
--
2.14.1