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From: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: simplify error handling in load_elf_phdrs()
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2020 08:42:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1810206.T5v88Pq2cJ@devpool47> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com>
---
 fs/binfmt_elf.c | 10 ++--------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index b588d1291b25..74827a7a06d0 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ static struct elf_phdr *load_elf_phdrs(const struct elfhdr *elf_ex,
 				       struct file *elf_file)
 {
 	struct elf_phdr *elf_phdata = NULL;
-	int retval, err = -1;
+	int retval = -1;
 	unsigned int size;
 
 	/*
@@ -480,15 +480,9 @@ static struct elf_phdr *load_elf_phdrs(const struct elfhdr *elf_ex,
 
 	/* Read in the program headers */
 	retval = elf_read(elf_file, elf_phdata, size, elf_ex->e_phoff);
-	if (retval < 0) {
-		err = retval;
-		goto out;
-	}
 
-	/* Success! */
-	err = 0;
 out:
-	if (err) {
+	if (retval) {
 		kfree(elf_phdata);
 		elf_phdata = NULL;
 	}
-- 
2.29.1


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             reply	other threads:[~2020-11-04  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-04  7:42 Rolf Eike Beer [this message]
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2022-10-19  7:52 [PATCH] binfmt_elf: simplify error handling in load_elf_phdrs() Rolf Eike Beer
2022-10-25 22:24 ` Kees Cook

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