From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: 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>,
keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] keys: Remove return variable and length check to simplify user_read
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:44:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260228094447.869637-1-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)
In user_read(), remove the unnecessary return variable 'ret' and return
->datalen directly. Drop the redundant 'buflen > 0' check and use min()
to determine the number of bytes to copy. No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
security/keys/user_defined.c | 12 +++---------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/keys/user_defined.c b/security/keys/user_defined.c
index 6f88b507f927..b53e063272c2 100644
--- a/security/keys/user_defined.c
+++ b/security/keys/user_defined.c
@@ -171,20 +171,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(user_describe);
long user_read(const struct key *key, char *buffer, size_t buflen)
{
const struct user_key_payload *upayload;
- long ret;
upayload = user_key_payload_locked(key);
- ret = upayload->datalen;
/* we can return the data as is */
- if (buffer && buflen > 0) {
- if (buflen > upayload->datalen)
- buflen = upayload->datalen;
+ if (buffer)
+ memcpy(buffer, upayload->data, min(buflen, upayload->datalen));
- memcpy(buffer, upayload->data, buflen);
- }
-
- return ret;
+ return upayload->datalen;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(user_read);
--
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
GPG: 1D60 735E 8AEF 3BE4 73B6 9D84 7336 78FD 8DFE EAD4
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2026-02-28 9:44 Thorsten Blum [this message]
2026-03-04 0:10 ` [PATCH] keys: Remove return variable and length check to simplify user_read Jarkko Sakkinen
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