The changes in r359374 added various sanity checks in sessions and
requests created by crypto consumers in part to permit backend drivers
to make assumptions instead of duplicating checks for various edge
cases. One of the new checks was to reject sessions which provide a
pointer to a key while claiming the key is zero bits long.
IPsec ESP tripped over this as it passes along whatever key is
provided for NULL, including a pointer to a zero-length key when an
empty string ("") is used with setkey(8). One option would be to
teach the IPsec key layer to not allocate keys of zero length, but I
went with a simpler fix of just not passing any keys down and always
using a key length of zero for NULL algorithms.
PR: 245832
Reported by: CI
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