On Fri Mar 1, 2024 at 10:47 PM EET, Stefan Berger wrote:
>
>
> On 3/1/24 15:41, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Fri Mar 1, 2024 at 4:20 AM EET, Stefan Berger wrote:
> >> In some cases the name keylen does not reflect the purpose of the variable
> >> anymore once NIST P521 is used but it is the size of the buffer. There-
> >> for, rename keylen to bufsize where appropriate.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <[email protected]>
> >> ---
> >> crypto/ecdsa.c | 12 ++++++------
> >> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/crypto/ecdsa.c b/crypto/ecdsa.c
> >> index 4daefb40c37a..4e847b59622a 100644
> >> --- a/crypto/ecdsa.c
> >> +++ b/crypto/ecdsa.c
> >> @@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ struct ecdsa_signature_ctx {
> >> static int ecdsa_get_signature_rs(u64 *dest, size_t hdrlen, unsigned char tag,
> >> const void *value, size_t vlen, unsigned int ndigits)
> >> {
> >> - size_t keylen = ndigits * sizeof(u64);
> >> - ssize_t diff = vlen - keylen;
> >> + size_t bufsize = ndigits * sizeof(u64);
> >
> > why not just "* 8"? using sizeof here makes this function only unreadable.
>
> 'unreadable' is a 'strong' word ...
so what is the gain when writing sizeof(u64)?
BR, Jarkko
On 3/1/24 15:50, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Fri Mar 1, 2024 at 10:47 PM EET, Stefan Berger wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 3/1/24 15:41, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>>> On Fri Mar 1, 2024 at 4:20 AM EET, Stefan Berger wrote:
>>>> In some cases the name keylen does not reflect the purpose of the variable
>>>> anymore once NIST P521 is used but it is the size of the buffer. There-
>>>> for, rename keylen to bufsize where appropriate.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <[email protected]>
>>>> ---
>>>> crypto/ecdsa.c | 12 ++++++------
>>>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/crypto/ecdsa.c b/crypto/ecdsa.c
>>>> index 4daefb40c37a..4e847b59622a 100644
>>>> --- a/crypto/ecdsa.c
>>>> +++ b/crypto/ecdsa.c
>>>> @@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ struct ecdsa_signature_ctx {
>>>> static int ecdsa_get_signature_rs(u64 *dest, size_t hdrlen, unsigned char tag,
>>>> const void *value, size_t vlen, unsigned int ndigits)
>>>> {
>>>> - size_t keylen = ndigits * sizeof(u64);
>>>> - ssize_t diff = vlen - keylen;
>>>> + size_t bufsize = ndigits * sizeof(u64);
>>>
>>> why not just "* 8"? using sizeof here makes this function only unreadable.
>>
>> 'unreadable' is a 'strong' word ...
>
> so what is the gain when writing sizeof(u64)?
It matches existing code and a digit is a 'u64'.
>
> BR, Jarkko