Re: [PATCH 0/5] refactor mpi_read_from_buffer()

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:19:50PM +0200, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> mpi_read_from_buffer() and mpi_read_raw_data() do almost the same and share a
> fair amount of common code.
> 
> This patchset attempts to rewrite mpi_read_from_buffer() in order to implement
> it in terms of mpi_read_raw_data().
> 
> The patches 1 and 3, i.e.
>   "lib/mpi: mpi_read_from_buffer(): return error code"
> and
>   "lib/mpi: mpi_read_from_buffer(): return -EINVAL upon too short buffer"
> do the groundwork in that they move any error detection unique to
> mpi_read_from_buffer() out of the data handling loop.
> 
> The patches 2 and 4, that is
>   "lib/digsig: digsig_verify_rsa(): return -EINVAL if modulo length is zero"
> and
>   "lib/mpi: mpi_read_from_buffer(): sanitize short buffer printk"
> are not strictly necessary for the refactoring: they cleanup some minor oddities
> related to error handling I came across.
> 
> Finally, the last patch in this series,
>   "lib/mpi: refactor mpi_read_from_buffer() in terms of mpi_read_raw_data()"
> actually does what this series is all about.
> 
> 
> Applicable to linux-next-20160325.

All applied.
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