[PATCH] crypto: Fix rwsem leak in crypto_user

[Jonathan Corbet]

The list_empty case in crypto_alg_match() will return without calling
up_read() on crypto_alg_sem.  We could do the "goto out" routine, but the
function will clearly do the right thing with that test simply removed.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/crypto/crypto_user.c b/crypto/crypto_user.c
index 2abca78..0605a2b 100644
--- a/crypto/crypto_user.c
+++ b/crypto/crypto_user.c
@@ -44,9 +44,6 @@ static struct crypto_alg *crypto_alg_match(struct crypto_user_alg *p, int exact)
 
 	down_read(&crypto_alg_sem);
 
-	if (list_empty(&crypto_alg_list))
-		return NULL;
-
 	list_for_each_entry(q, &crypto_alg_list, cra_list) {
 		int match = 0;
 
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