crypto: compress - Add pcomp interface

The current "comp" crypto interface supports one-shot (de)compression only,
i.e. the whole data buffer to be (de)compressed must be passed at once, and
the whole (de)compressed data buffer will be received at once.
In several use-cases (e.g. compressed file systems that store files in big
compressed blocks), this workflow is not suitable.
Furthermore, the "comp" type doesn't provide for the configuration of
(de)compression parameters, and always allocates workspace memory for both
compression and decompression, which may waste memory.

To solve this, add a "pcomp" partial (de)compression interface that provides
the following operations:
  - crypto_compress_{init,update,final}() for compression,
  - crypto_decompress_{init,update,final}() for decompression,
  - crypto_{,de}compress_setup(), to configure (de)compression parameters
    (incl. allocating workspace memory).

The (de)compression methods take a struct comp_request, which was mimicked
after the z_stream object in zlib, and contains buffer pointer and length
pairs for input and output.

The setup methods take an opaque parameter pointer and length pair. Parameters
are supposed to be encoded using netlink attributes, whose meanings depend on
the actual (name of the) (de)compression algorithm.

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

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig
index 4a3e6b225189..1676f171c54b 100644
--- a/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ config CRYPTO_RNG2
         tristate
         select CRYPTO_ALGAPI2
 
+config CRYPTO_PCOMP
+        tristate
+        select CRYPTO_ALGAPI2
+
 config CRYPTO_MANAGER
         tristate "Cryptographic algorithm manager"
         select CRYPTO_MANAGER2