crypto: shash - Add shash_attr_alg2 helper
This patch adds the helper shash_attr_alg2 which locates a shash
algorithm based on the information in the given attribute.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
diff --git a/crypto/shash.c b/crypto/shash.c
index 97f6c8b..21bcff6 100644
--- a/crypto/shash.c
+++ b/crypto/shash.c
@@ -518,5 +518,15 @@
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_init_shash_spawn);
+struct shash_alg *shash_attr_alg(struct rtattr *rta, u32 type, u32 mask)
+{
+ struct crypto_alg *alg;
+
+ alg = crypto_attr_alg2(rta, &crypto_shash_type, type, mask);
+ return IS_ERR(alg) ? ERR_CAST(alg) :
+ container_of(alg, struct shash_alg, base);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shash_attr_alg);
+
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Synchronous cryptographic hash type");