Re: [PATCH 1/1] lib/mpi: Fixed erroneous check on return value of mpi_resize()

From: Tetsuo Handa
Date: Fri May 04 2012 - 23:30:47 EST


Adarsh J wrote:
> mpi_resize() returns -ENOMEM on error and 0 on success.

Good catch.

But it seems to me that mpi_fromstr() has no in-tree users.
Also, mpi_fromstr() in RHEL 5.8/6.2 has no users.
We forgot to exclude when adding MPI support?

>
> Signed-off-by: Adarsh J <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> lib/mpi/mpicoder.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c b/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c
> index f26b41f..9949b69 100644
> --- a/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c
> +++ b/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c
> @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ int mpi_fromstr(MPI val, const char *str)
> nbytes = (nbits + 7) / 8;
> nlimbs = (nbytes + BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB - 1) / BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB;
> if (val->alloced < nlimbs)
> - if (!mpi_resize(val, nlimbs))
> + if (mpi_resize(val, nlimbs) < 0)
> return -ENOMEM;
> i = BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB - nbytes % BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB;
> i %= BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB;
> --
> 1.7.9.5
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