Re: [PATCH ima-evm-utils v3 06/15] Add missing EVP_MD_CTX_free() call in calc_evm_hash()

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Hi Vitaly,

Thank you for this and the other reviews.  They'll be addressed in the
next version.

On Wed, 2022-09-14 at 17:51 +0300, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
> > @@ -350,12 +356,11 @@ static int calc_evm_hash(const char *file, unsigned char *hash)
> >  #if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER < 0x10100000
> >       EVP_MD_CTX ctx;
> >       pctx = &ctx;
> > -#else
> > -     pctx = EVP_MD_CTX_new();
> >  #endif
> >  
> >       if (lstat(file, &st)) {
> >               log_err("Failed to stat: %s\n", file);
> > +             errno = 0;
> 
> Why it clears errno (here and below)?
> 
> errno(3) says "The value of errno is never set to zero by any system
> call or library function."

evmctl, itself, is not a system call or a library function.  Is this a
generic statement or here in particular as to how evmctl should handle
failed system calls?   Another example is reading the keyfile.  The
existence of which is not required.

thanks,

Mimi





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