crypto: sig - Introduce sig_alg backend

Commit 6cb8815f41a9 ("crypto: sig - Add interface for sign/verify")
began a transition of asymmetric sign/verify operations from
crypto_akcipher to a new crypto_sig frontend.

Internally, the crypto_sig frontend still uses akcipher_alg as backend,
however:

   "The link between sig and akcipher is meant to be temporary.  The
    plan is to create a new low-level API for sig and then migrate
    the signature code over to that from akcipher."
    https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]/

   "having a separate alg for sig is definitely where we want to
    be since there is very little that the two types actually share."
    https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]/

Take the next step of that migration and augment the crypto_sig frontend
with a sig_alg backend to which all algorithms can be moved.

During the migration, there will briefly be signature algorithms that
are still based on crypto_akcipher, whilst others are already based on
crypto_sig.  Allow for that by building a fork into crypto_sig_*() API
calls (i.e. crypto_sig_maxsize() and friends) such that one of the two
backends is selected based on the transform's cra_type.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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