From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] KEYS: remove a bogus NULL check
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 18:42:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141122184201.GE6994@mwanda> (raw)
We already checked if "desc" was NULL at the beginning of the function
and we've dereferenced it so this causes a static checker warning.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
diff --git a/security/keys/key.c b/security/keys/key.c
index e17ba6a..aee2ec5 100644
--- a/security/keys/key.c
+++ b/security/keys/key.c
@@ -276,12 +276,10 @@ struct key *key_alloc(struct key_type *type, const char *desc,
if (!key)
goto no_memory_2;
- if (desc) {
- key->index_key.desc_len = desclen;
- key->index_key.description = kmemdup(desc, desclen + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!key->description)
- goto no_memory_3;
- }
+ key->index_key.desc_len = desclen;
+ key->index_key.description = kmemdup(desc, desclen + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!key->description)
+ goto no_memory_3;
atomic_set(&key->usage, 1);
init_rwsem(&key->sem);
next reply other threads:[~2014-11-22 18:42 UTC|newest]
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2014-11-22 18:42 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2014-11-24 13:42 ` [patch] KEYS: remove a bogus NULL check David Howells
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