On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 10:12 AM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 16:56:51 +0100
>
> Move the assignment for the local variables "newc" and "newgenfs" behind
> a call of the function "next_entry" at the beginning so that they will
> only be set after a successful call.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> security/selinux/ss/policydb.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
I think it is cleaner, and arguably safer, the way it is now. I'm not
worried about performance gains in the error path, especially when
those gains are probably not measurable.
> diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
> index 754f829d2027..7544e374dec9 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
> @@ -1997,14 +1997,14 @@ static int genfs_read(struct policydb *p, void *fp)
> int i, j, rc;
> u32 nel, nel2, len, len2;
> __le32 buf[1];
> - struct ocontext *l, *c;
> - struct ocontext *newc = NULL;
> - struct genfs *genfs_p, *genfs;
> - struct genfs *newgenfs = NULL;
> + struct ocontext *l, *c, *newc;
> + struct genfs *genfs_p, *genfs, *newgenfs;
>
> rc = next_entry(buf, fp, sizeof(u32));
> if (rc)
> return rc;
> + newc = NULL;
> + newgenfs = NULL;
> nel = le32_to_cpu(buf[0]);
>
> for (i = 0; i < nel; i++) {
> --
> 2.11.0
>
--
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com
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