From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiggers3@gmail.com (Eric Biggers) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:57:57 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] KEYS: remove unnecessary get/put of explicit dest_keyring Message-ID: <20171120225757.96498-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com> To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-security-module.vger.kernel.org From: Eric Biggers In request_key_and_link(), in the case where the dest_keyring was explicitly specified, there is no need to get another reference to dest_keyring before calling key_link(), then drop it afterwards. This is because by definition, we already have a reference to dest_keyring. This change is useful because we'll be making construct_get_dest_keyring() able to return an error code, and we don't want to have to handle that error here for no reason. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers --- security/keys/request_key.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c index e8036cd0ad54..c6880af8b411 100644 --- a/security/keys/request_key.c +++ b/security/keys/request_key.c @@ -546,9 +546,7 @@ struct key *request_key_and_link(struct key_type *type, if (!IS_ERR(key_ref)) { key = key_ref_to_ptr(key_ref); if (dest_keyring) { - construct_get_dest_keyring(&dest_keyring); ret = key_link(dest_keyring, key); - key_put(dest_keyring); if (ret < 0) { key_put(key); key = ERR_PTR(ret); -- 2.15.0.448.gf294e3d99a-goog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org More majordomo info@ http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html