Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] crypte: ecc - Implement ecc_curve_get_nbits to get number of bits

[Lukas Wunner]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 03:41:45PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> --- a/include/crypto/internal/ecc.h
> +++ b/include/crypto/internal/ecc.h
> @@ -75,6 +75,17 @@ static inline void ecc_digits_from_bytes(const u8 *in, unsigned int nbytes,
>  	ecc_swap_digits(tmp, out, ndigits);
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * ecc_curve_get_nbits() - Get the number of bits of the curve
> + * @curve:    The curve
> + */
> +static inline unsigned int ecc_curve_get_nbits(const struct ecc_curve *curve)
> +{
> +	if (curve->nbits)
> +		return curve->nbits;
> +	return curve->g.ndigits << ECC_DIGITS_TO_BYTES_SHIFT * 8;
> +}

Since you're amending struct ecc_curve with an extra nbits value anyway,
why not statically fill it in for all curves, instead of adding this
extra complexity in the code?

Thanks,

Lukas