Re: [PATCH v5 04/10] crypto: akcipher - new verify API for public key algorithms

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Feb 28 2019 - 13:19:00 EST


Vitaly Chikunov <vt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> + digest = kmemdup(sig->digest, sig->digest_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!digest)

You shouldn't need to copy the digest. It's being passed in to the crypto
algorithm, not extracted out.

> + if (memcmp(c, outbuf_enc, c_size)) {

Please use == 0 and != 0 with memcmp() and strcmp(). Their return values are
kind of inverted in sense if you treat them as boolean.

David