crypto: api - Add crypto_grab_spawn primitive

This patch adds a new primitive crypto_grab_spawn which is meant
to replace crypto_init_spawn and crypto_init_spawn2.  Under the
new scheme the user no longer has to worry about reference counting
the alg object before it is subsumed by the spawn.

It is pretty much an exact copy of crypto_grab_aead.

Prior to calling this function spawn->frontend and spawn->inst
must have been set.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/crypto/algapi.c b/crypto/algapi.c
index 3103e6a1..abf100c0 100644
--- a/crypto/algapi.c
+++ b/crypto/algapi.c
@@ -612,6 +612,22 @@ out:
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_init_spawn2);
 
+int crypto_grab_spawn(struct crypto_spawn *spawn, const char *name,
+		      u32 type, u32 mask)
+{
+	struct crypto_alg *alg;
+	int err;
+
+	alg = crypto_find_alg(name, spawn->frontend, type, mask);
+	if (IS_ERR(alg))
+		return PTR_ERR(alg);
+
+	err = crypto_init_spawn(spawn, alg, spawn->inst, mask);
+	crypto_mod_put(alg);
+	return err;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_grab_spawn);
+
 void crypto_drop_spawn(struct crypto_spawn *spawn)
 {
 	if (!spawn->alg)