On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 02:23:42PM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:28:47PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > crypto_get_attr_type() can returns ERR_PTRs if there is a problem. > > > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > diff --git a/crypto/pcrypt.c b/crypto/pcrypt.c > > index 8020124..41bd80f 100644 > > --- a/crypto/pcrypt.c > > +++ b/crypto/pcrypt.c > > @@ -322,6 +322,8 @@ static struct crypto_instance *pcrypt_alloc_aead(struct rtattr **tb) > > struct crypto_attr_type *algt; > > > > algt = crypto_get_attr_type(tb); > > + if (IS_ERR(algt)) > > + return ERR_CAST(algt); > > > > alg = crypto_get_attr_alg(tb, algt->type, > > (algt->mask & CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_MASK)); > > I've just noticed that we are calling crypto_get_attr_type already in > pcrypt_alloc, so perhaps we could just pass the type and mask to > pcrypt_alloc_aead. Then we can remove this second call to > crypto_get_attr_type completely. > Yup. That works too. I will send an updated patch. regards, dan carpenter > Steffen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html