Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752715AbdFAQKz (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2017 12:10:55 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:33536 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752208AbdFAPpG (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2017 11:45:06 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Mimi Zohar" , "Dan Carpenter" , "James Morris" Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:43:16 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 114/212] KEYS: Fix an error code in request_master_key() In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 82.70.136.246 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1319 Lines: 35 3.16.44-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter commit 57cb17e764ba0aaa169d07796acce54ccfbc6cae upstream. This function has two callers and neither are able to handle a NULL return. Really, -EINVAL is the correct thing return here anyway. This fixes some static checker warnings like: security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c:709 encrypted_key_decrypt() error: uninitialized symbol 'master_key'. Fixes: 7e70cb497850 ("keys: add new key-type encrypted") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Acked-by: Mimi Zohar Signed-off-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c +++ b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static int init_blkcipher_desc(struct bl static struct key *request_master_key(struct encrypted_key_payload *epayload, u8 **master_key, size_t *master_keylen) { - struct key *mkey = NULL; + struct key *mkey = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); if (!strncmp(epayload->master_desc, KEY_TRUSTED_PREFIX, KEY_TRUSTED_PREFIX_LEN)) {