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* [patch] KEYS: Propagate error code instead of returning -EINVAL
@ 2010-06-03 19:09 Dan Carpenter
  2010-06-04 10:08 ` David Howells
  2010-06-06 23:23 ` [patch] KEYS: Propagate error code instead of returning James Morris
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2010-06-03 19:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kernel-janitors

This is from a Smatch check I'm writing.

strncpy_from_user() returns -EFAULT on error so the first change just
silences a warning but doesn't change how the code works.

The other change is a bug fix because install_thread_keyring_to_cred()
can return a variety of errors such as -EINVAL, -EEXIST, -ENOMEM or 
-EKEYREVOKED.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl.c b/security/keys/keyctl.c
index 13074b4..6261745 100644
--- a/security/keys/keyctl.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ static int key_get_type_from_user(char *type,
 	ret = strncpy_from_user(type, _type, len);
 
 	if (ret < 0)
-		return -EFAULT;
+		return ret;
 
 	if (ret = 0 || ret >= len)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ set:
 	return old_setting;
 error:
 	abort_creds(new);
-	return -EINVAL;
+	return ret;
 
 } /* end keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() */
 

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* Re: [patch] KEYS: Propagate error code instead of returning -EINVAL
  2010-06-03 19:09 [patch] KEYS: Propagate error code instead of returning -EINVAL Dan Carpenter
@ 2010-06-04 10:08 ` David Howells
  2010-06-06 23:23 ` [patch] KEYS: Propagate error code instead of returning James Morris
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Howells @ 2010-06-04 10:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kernel-janitors

Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is from a Smatch check I'm writing.
> 
> strncpy_from_user() returns -EFAULT on error so the first change just
> silences a warning but doesn't change how the code works.
> 
> The other change is a bug fix because install_thread_keyring_to_cred()
> can return a variety of errors such as -EINVAL, -EEXIST, -ENOMEM or 
> -EKEYREVOKED.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

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* Re: [patch] KEYS: Propagate error code instead of returning
  2010-06-03 19:09 [patch] KEYS: Propagate error code instead of returning -EINVAL Dan Carpenter
  2010-06-04 10:08 ` David Howells
@ 2010-06-06 23:23 ` James Morris
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: James Morris @ 2010-06-06 23:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kernel-janitors

On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> This is from a Smatch check I'm writing.
> 
> strncpy_from_user() returns -EFAULT on error so the first change just
> silences a warning but doesn't change how the code works.
> 
> The other change is a bug fix because install_thread_keyring_to_cred()
> can return a variety of errors such as -EINVAL, -EEXIST, -ENOMEM or 
> -EKEYREVOKED.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next

-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

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