From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] KEYS: encrypted: Return early on allocation failure and drop goto
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:31:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251029163157.119000-1-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)
Return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) immediately if memory allocation fails, instead
of using goto and returning a NULL pointer, and remove the now-unused
'out' label.
At the call site, check 'ascii_buf' with IS_ERR() and propagate the
error code returned by datablob_format().
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
index be1f2118447c..25df00b7dbe9 100644
--- a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
+++ b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ static char *datablob_format(struct encrypted_key_payload *epayload,
ascii_buf = kmalloc(asciiblob_len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ascii_buf)
- goto out;
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
ascii_buf[asciiblob_len] = '\0';
@@ -288,7 +288,6 @@ static char *datablob_format(struct encrypted_key_payload *epayload,
bufp = &ascii_buf[len];
for (i = 0; i < (asciiblob_len - len) / 2; i++)
bufp = hex_byte_pack(bufp, iv[i]);
-out:
return ascii_buf;
}
@@ -932,8 +931,8 @@ static long encrypted_read(const struct key *key, char *buffer,
goto out;
ascii_buf = datablob_format(epayload, asciiblob_len);
- if (!ascii_buf) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
+ if (IS_ERR(ascii_buf)) {
+ ret = PTR_ERR(ascii_buf);
goto out;
}
--
2.51.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-10-29 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-29 16:31 Thorsten Blum [this message]
2025-10-31 20:32 ` [PATCH] KEYS: encrypted: Return early on allocation failure and drop goto Serge E. Hallyn
2025-11-09 4:47 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
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