From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] crypto: set error code when kcalloc fails
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 21:21:56 +0800
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 10:04:43AM +0800, Pan Bian wrote:
> Fix bug https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188521. In function
> skcipher_recvmsg_async(), variable err takes the return value, and its
> value should be negative on failures. Because variable err may be
> reassigned and checked before calling kcalloc(), its value may be 0
> (indicates no error) even if kcalloc() fails. This patch fixes the bug
> by explicitly assigning -ENOMEM to err when kcalloc() returns a NULL
> pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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