Re: [PATCH] crypto: asymmetric_keys: Fix PKCS#7 selftest error reporting

[Ben Boeckel]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 00:35:13 +0330, m-amirpour wrote:
> From: Muhammad Mahdi Amirpour <ampr.mhd@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> pkcs7_parse_message() returns an error pointer on failure, but the
> selftest prints ret, which still contains the result of the previous
> x509_load_certificate_list() call.
> 
> Print the parser's error pointer with %pe so that a failure reports
> the actual parsing error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Mahdi Amirpour <ampr.mhd@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  crypto/asymmetric_keys/selftest.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/selftest.c b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/selftest.c
> index 98dc5cdfdeb..42857b02258 100644
> --- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/selftest.c
> +++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/selftest.c
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ void fips_signature_selftest(const char *name,
>  
>  	pkcs7 = pkcs7_parse_message(sig, sig_len);
>  	if (IS_ERR(pkcs7))
> -		panic("Certs %s selftest: pkcs7_parse_message() = %d\n", name, ret);
> +		panic("Certs %s selftest: pkcs7_parse_message() = %pe\n", name, pkcs7);
>  
>  	pkcs7_supply_detached_data(pkcs7, data, data_len);

Reviewed-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@xxxxxxxxx>

--Ben