On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:41:41AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > Hello Herbert Xu, > > The patch 3095e8e366b4: "eCryptfs: Use skcipher and shash" from Jan > 25, 2016, leads to the following static checker warning: > > fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c:1117 ecryptfs_parse_tag_70_packet() > error: potential null dereference 's'. (kzalloc returns null) Thanks for catching this Dan. It's probably easiest if I add this to the crypto tree. ---8<--- eCryptfs: Fix null pointer dereference on kzalloc error path The conversion to skcipher and shash added a couple of null pointer dereference bugs on the kzalloc failure path. This patch fixes them. Fixes: 3095e8e366b4 ("eCryptfs: Use skcipher and shash") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c b/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c index c5c84df..9893d15 100644 --- a/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c @@ -635,8 +635,7 @@ ecryptfs_write_tag_70_packet(char *dest, size_t *remaining_bytes, if (!s) { printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Out of memory whilst trying to kmalloc " "[%zd] bytes of kernel memory\n", __func__, sizeof(*s)); - rc = -ENOMEM; - goto out; + return -ENOMEM; } (*packet_size) = 0; rc = ecryptfs_find_auth_tok_for_sig( @@ -922,8 +921,7 @@ ecryptfs_parse_tag_70_packet(char **filename, size_t *filename_size, if (!s) { printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Out of memory whilst trying to kmalloc " "[%zd] bytes of kernel memory\n", __func__, sizeof(*s)); - rc = -ENOMEM; - goto out; + return -ENOMEM; } if (max_packet_size < ECRYPTFS_TAG_70_MIN_METADATA_SIZE) { printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: max_packet_size is [%zd]; it must be " -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ecryptfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html