On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 01:24:38PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: > > I'm reporting the following bug detected by Coverity: > > The _scalar_copied_ variable is set to 0 at > > lib/mpi/ec.c:1255: > 1255 int scalar_copied = 0; > > and it is never updated before reaching the code below: > > lib/mpi/ec.c:1317 > 1317 if (scalar_copied) > 1318 mpi_free(scalar); > > This code was introduced by commit d58bb7e55a8a ("lib/mpi: Introduce ec > implementation to MPI library") > > Any ideas on what's the right solution for this? I think it should be removed. ---8<--- The scalar_copied variable is not as the scalar is never copied in that block. This patch removes it. Fixes: d58bb7e55a8a ("lib/mpi: Introduce ec implementation to...") Reported-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/lib/mpi/ec.c b/lib/mpi/ec.c index c21470122dfc..40f5908e57a4 100644 --- a/lib/mpi/ec.c +++ b/lib/mpi/ec.c @@ -1252,7 +1252,6 @@ void mpi_ec_mul_point(MPI_POINT result, MPI_POINT q1, q2, prd, sum; unsigned long sw; mpi_size_t rsize; - int scalar_copied = 0; /* Compute scalar point multiplication with Montgomery Ladder. * Note that we don't use Y-coordinate in the points at all. @@ -1314,8 +1313,6 @@ void mpi_ec_mul_point(MPI_POINT result, point_free(&p2); point_free(&p1_); point_free(&p2_); - if (scalar_copied) - mpi_free(scalar); return; } -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt