1 /* Signature verification with an asymmetric key
3 * See Documentation/crypto/asymmetric-keys.txt
5 * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
6 * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
8 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
9 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence
10 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
11 * 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
14 #define pr_fmt(fmt) "SIG: "fmt
15 #include <keys/asymmetric-subtype.h>
16 #include <linux/export.h>
17 #include <linux/err.h>
18 #include <linux/slab.h>
19 #include <crypto/public_key.h>
20 #include "asymmetric_keys.h"
23 * Destroy a public key signature.
25 void public_key_signature_free(struct public_key_signature
*sig
)
30 for (i
= 0; i
< ARRAY_SIZE(sig
->auth_ids
); i
++)
31 kfree(sig
->auth_ids
[i
]);
37 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(public_key_signature_free
);
40 * verify_signature - Initiate the use of an asymmetric key to verify a signature
41 * @key: The asymmetric key to verify against
42 * @sig: The signature to check
44 * Returns 0 if successful or else an error.
46 int verify_signature(const struct key
*key
,
47 const struct public_key_signature
*sig
)
49 const struct asymmetric_key_subtype
*subtype
;
52 pr_devel("==>%s()\n", __func__
);
54 if (key
->type
!= &key_type_asymmetric
)
56 subtype
= asymmetric_key_subtype(key
);
58 !key
->payload
.data
[0])
60 if (!subtype
->verify_signature
)
63 ret
= subtype
->verify_signature(key
, sig
);
65 pr_devel("<==%s() = %d\n", __func__
, ret
);
68 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(verify_signature
);