From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ashwin Ganti <ashwin.ganti@gmail.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
rsc@swtch.com, ericvh@gmail.com,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
Ron Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>,
jt.beard@gmail.com, Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net>,
Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] RFC: p9auth: add p9auth fs
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 15:57:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4067.1272985037@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100427164517.GC7530@us.ibm.com>
Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> + result = kzalloc(MAX_DIGEST_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> ...
> + ret = crypto_hash_digest(&desc, &sg, plain_text_size, result);
Does result have to be pre-cleared?
> + user_buf = kzalloc(count+1, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!user_buf)
> + goto out;
> +
> + if (copy_from_user(user_buf, buffer, count)) {
user_buf doesn't need preclearing. It's just a waste of time. This occurs
three times.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-04 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-27 16:41 [PATCH 0/3] p9auth fs: introduction Serge E. Hallyn
2010-04-27 16:42 ` [PATCH 1/3] p9auth: split core function out of some set*{u,g}id functions Serge E. Hallyn
2010-05-04 14:52 ` David Howells
2010-04-27 16:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] p9auth: add CAP_GRANT_ID to authorize use of /dev/caphash Serge E. Hallyn
2010-04-27 16:45 ` [PATCH 3/3] RFC: p9auth: add p9auth fs Serge E. Hallyn
2010-04-28 11:17 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-28 15:10 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-04-28 15:39 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-03 23:50 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-05-04 14:57 ` David Howells [this message]
2010-05-04 15:14 ` Serge E. Hallyn
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