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API: crypto: return value of odp_crypto_cipher_capability/odp_crypto_auth_capability #652

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@lumag

Currently we enforce that crypto capabilities retrieval functions always return same value for 'number of capability structures'. This helps one to use following code sequence easily:

int num_caps = odp_crypto_cipher_capability(ODP_CIPHER_ALG_AES_CBC, NULL, 0);
odp_crypto_cipher_capability_t capa[num_caps];
int ret = odp_crypto_cipher_capability(ODP_CIPHER_ALG_AES_CBC, capa, num_caps);
int i;

for (i = 0; i < num_capa; i++)
    do_something(&capa[i]);

For ODP-DPDK this might lead to inclusion of duplicate or overlapping entries in capabilties structure.
Options to consider:

  • leave API as is, document that caps might include overlapping entries
  • change requirement so that ret <= num_capa, forcing users to loop till ret in the second loop
  • ???

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