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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2017-02-09 17:17:52 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-07-15 10:14:40 +0200
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KEYS: Fix an error code in request_master_key()
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 <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
index 0a374a2ce030..8e1c0099bb66 100644
--- a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
+++ b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static int init_blkcipher_desc(struct blkcipher_desc *desc, const u8 *key,
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)) {