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+/* ASN.1 Object identifier (OID) registry
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/oid_registry.h>
+#include "oid_registry_data.c"
+
+/**
+ * look_up_OID - Find an OID registration for the specified data
+ * @data: Binary representation of the OID
+ * @datasize: Size of the binary representation
+ */
+enum OID look_up_OID(const void *data, size_t datasize)
+{
+	const unsigned char *octets = data;
+	enum OID oid;
+	unsigned char xhash;
+	unsigned i, j, k, hash;
+	size_t len;
+
+	/* Hash the OID data */
+	hash = datasize - 1;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < datasize; i++)
+		hash += octets[i] * 33;
+	hash = (hash >> 24) ^ (hash >> 16) ^ (hash >> 8) ^ hash;
+	hash &= 0xff;
+
+	/* Binary search the OID registry.  OIDs are stored in ascending order
+	 * of hash value then ascending order of size and then in ascending
+	 * order of reverse value.
+	 */
+	i = 0;
+	k = OID__NR;
+	while (i < k) {
+		j = (i + k) / 2;
+
+		xhash = oid_search_table[j].hash;
+		if (xhash > hash) {
+			k = j;
+			continue;
+		}
+		if (xhash < hash) {
+			i = j + 1;
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		oid = oid_search_table[j].oid;
+		len = oid_index[oid + 1] - oid_index[oid];
+		if (len > datasize) {
+			k = j;
+			continue;
+		}
+		if (len < datasize) {
+			i = j + 1;
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		/* Variation is most likely to be at the tail end of the
+		 * OID, so do the comparison in reverse.
+		 */
+		while (len > 0) {
+			unsigned char a = oid_data[oid_index[oid] + --len];
+			unsigned char b = octets[len];
+			if (a > b) {
+				k = j;
+				goto next;
+			}
+			if (a < b) {
+				i = j + 1;
+				goto next;
+			}
+		}
+		return oid;
+	next:
+		;
+	}
+
+	return OID__NR;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(look_up_OID);