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+/* mpiutil.ac  -  Utility functions for MPI
+ * Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ *
+ * This file is part of GnuPG.
+ *
+ * GnuPG is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * GnuPG is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
+ */
+
+#include "mpi-internal.h"
+
+/****************
+ * Note:  It was a bad idea to use the number of limbs to allocate
+ *	  because on a alpha the limbs are large but we normally need
+ *	  integers of n bits - So we should chnage this to bits (or bytes).
+ *
+ *	  But mpi_alloc is used in a lot of places :-)
+ */
+MPI mpi_alloc(unsigned nlimbs)
+{
+	MPI a;
+
+	a = kmalloc(sizeof *a, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!a)
+		return a;
+
+	if (nlimbs) {
+		a->d = mpi_alloc_limb_space(nlimbs);
+		if (!a->d) {
+			kfree(a);
+			return NULL;
+		}
+	} else {
+		a->d = NULL;
+	}
+
+	a->alloced = nlimbs;
+	a->nlimbs = 0;
+	a->sign = 0;
+	a->flags = 0;
+	a->nbits = 0;
+	return a;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mpi_alloc);
+
+mpi_ptr_t mpi_alloc_limb_space(unsigned nlimbs)
+{
+	size_t len = nlimbs * sizeof(mpi_limb_t);
+
+	if (!len)
+		return NULL;
+
+	return kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+}
+
+void mpi_free_limb_space(mpi_ptr_t a)
+{
+	if (!a)
+		return;
+
+	kzfree(a);
+}
+
+void mpi_assign_limb_space(MPI a, mpi_ptr_t ap, unsigned nlimbs)
+{
+	mpi_free_limb_space(a->d);
+	a->d = ap;
+	a->alloced = nlimbs;
+}
+
+/****************
+ * Resize the array of A to NLIMBS. the additional space is cleared
+ * (set to 0) [done by m_realloc()]
+ */
+int mpi_resize(MPI a, unsigned nlimbs)
+{
+	void *p;
+
+	if (nlimbs <= a->alloced)
+		return 0;	/* no need to do it */
+
+	if (a->d) {
+		p = kmalloc_array(nlimbs, sizeof(mpi_limb_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!p)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		memcpy(p, a->d, a->alloced * sizeof(mpi_limb_t));
+		kzfree(a->d);
+		a->d = p;
+	} else {
+		a->d = kcalloc(nlimbs, sizeof(mpi_limb_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!a->d)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+	a->alloced = nlimbs;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+void mpi_free(MPI a)
+{
+	if (!a)
+		return;
+
+	if (a->flags & 4)
+		kzfree(a->d);
+	else
+		mpi_free_limb_space(a->d);
+
+	if (a->flags & ~7)
+		pr_info("invalid flag value in mpi\n");
+	kfree(a);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mpi_free);
+
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Multiprecision maths library");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");