Ephemeral key generation can be requested from any of the ffdheXYZ(dh) variants' common ->set_secret() by passing it an (encoded) struct dh with the key parameter being unset, i.e. with ->key_size == 0. As the whole purpose of the ffdheXYZ(dh) templates is to fill in the group parameters as appropriate, they expect ->p and ->g to be unset in any input struct dh as well. This means that a user would have to encode an all-zeroes struct dh instance via crypto_dh_encode_key() when requesting ephemeral key generation from a ffdheXYZ(dh) instance, which is kind of pointless. Make dh_safe_prime_set_secret() to decode a struct dh from the supplied buffer only if the latter is non-NULL and initialize it with all zeroes otherwise. That is, it is now possible to call crypto_kpp_set_secret(tfm, NULL, 0); on any ffdheXYZ(dh) tfm for requesting ephemeral key generation. Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@xxxxxxx> --- crypto/dh.c | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/crypto/dh.c b/crypto/dh.c index 869a0476e5e2..d0d24f615b2d 100644 --- a/crypto/dh.c +++ b/crypto/dh.c @@ -444,17 +444,18 @@ static int dh_safe_prime_set_secret(struct crypto_kpp *tfm, const void *buffer, struct dh_safe_prime_instance_ctx *inst_ctx = dh_safe_prime_instance_ctx(tfm); struct dh_safe_prime_tfm_ctx *tfm_ctx = kpp_tfm_ctx(tfm); - struct dh params; + struct dh params = {}; void *buf = NULL, *key = NULL; unsigned int buf_size; int err; - err = __crypto_dh_decode_key(buffer, len, ¶ms); - if (err) - return err; - - if (params.p_size || params.g_size) - return -EINVAL; + if (buffer) { + err = __crypto_dh_decode_key(buffer, len, ¶ms); + if (err) + return err; + if (params.p_size || params.g_size) + return -EINVAL; + } params.p = inst_ctx->safe_prime->p; params.p_size = inst_ctx->safe_prime->p_size; -- 2.26.2