Re: [PATCH] crypto: AEAD: add check for presence of auth tag

[Stephan Mueller]

Am Montag, 5. Januar 2015, 21:55:40 schrieb Herbert Xu:

Hi Herbert,

> On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 11:53:38AM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > Could you please check: I am unable to find the function.
> 
> It's in crypto/authenc.c.
> 
> > Note, there is no size parameter provided in crypto_aead_decrypt. To
> > obtain
> > the size, I would need to walk the scatterlists, no?
> 
> The cryptlen is supposed to contain the entire input apart from the
> AD, including the authentication tag if one is present.

Thanks a lot for the pointer, I overlooked the cryptlen member variable. I 
will update the patch to replace the scatterlist walk with such small check.

-- 
Ciao
Stephan
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