X.509: parse public key parameters from x509 for akcipher

Some public key algorithms (like EC-DSA) keep in parameters field
important data such as digest and curve OIDs (possibly more for
different EC-DSA variants). Thus, just setting a public key (as
for RSA) is not enough.

Append parameters into the key stream for akcipher_set_{pub,priv}_key.
Appended data is: (u32) algo OID, (u32) parameters length, parameters
data.

This does not affect current akcipher API nor RSA ciphers (they could
ignore it). Idea of appending parameters to the key stream is by Herbert
Xu.

Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
Cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Chikunov <vt@altlinux.org>
Reviewed-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/crypto/public_key.h b/include/crypto/public_key.h
index be626eac9113..712fe1214b5f 100644
--- a/include/crypto/public_key.h
+++ b/include/crypto/public_key.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #define _LINUX_PUBLIC_KEY_H
 
 #include <linux/keyctl.h>
+#include <linux/oid_registry.h>
 
 /*
  * Cryptographic data for the public-key subtype of the asymmetric key type.
@@ -25,6 +26,9 @@
 struct public_key {
 	void *key;
 	u32 keylen;
+	enum OID algo;
+	void *params;
+	u32 paramlen;
 	bool key_is_private;
 	const char *id_type;
 	const char *pkey_algo;