Re: [PATCH v0 1/8] hw-bound-key: introducing the generic structure

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Wed Oct 12 2022 - 04:54:30 EST


On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 06:38:30PM +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
> Hardware bound keys buffer has additional information,
> that will be accessed using this new structure.

I don't really understand what I should get from this.

It lacks motivation and function of this structure, even
the name of the structure.

Hardware bound key does not mean anything at all without
a context. I don't know what it is.

>
> structure members are:
> - flags, flags for hardware specific information.
> - key_sz, size of the plain key.

Who cares listing member names?

>
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/hw_bound_key.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 include/linux/hw_bound_key.h
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/hw_bound_key.h b/include/linux/hw_bound_key.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..e7f152410438
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/hw_bound_key.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> + *
> + * Copyright 2022 NXP
> + * Author: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@xxxxxxx>

Formatting here is incorrect and there is no such license in
existence as "GPL-2.0-only".

Should probably be:

/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ */
/*
* Copyright (C) 2022 NXP Semiconductors N.V.
*/

Author-field is redundant as it is part of the git metadata.
Also it is inaccurate description of authorship, as a file
can have multiple contributors over time.

This all is documented in

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/license-rules.html

> + */
> +
> +#ifndef _HW_BOUND_KEY_H
> +#define _HW_BOUND_KEY_H
> +
> +#include "types.h"
> +
> +struct hw_bound_key_info {
> + /* Key types specific to the hw. [Implementation Defined]
> + */
> + uint8_t flags;
> + uint8_t reserved;
> + /* Plain key size.
> + */
> + uint16_t key_sz;
> +};
> +
> +#define set_hbk_info(hbk_info, hw_flags, key_len) do {\
> + hbk_info->flags = hw_flags;\
> + hbk_info->key_sz = key_len;\
> +} while (0)
> +
> +#endif /* _HW_BOUND_KEY_H */
> --
> 2.17.1
>

BR, Jarkko