[PATCH 4.4 28/57] KEYS: Fix an error code in request_master_key()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Jul 13 2017 - 11:47:11 EST


4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 57cb17e764ba0aaa169d07796acce54ccfbc6cae upstream.

This function has two callers and neither are able to handle a NULL
return. Really, -EINVAL is the correct thing return here anyway. This
fixes some static checker warnings like:

security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c:709 encrypted_key_decrypt()
error: uninitialized symbol 'master_key'.

Fixes: 7e70cb497850 ("keys: add new key-type encrypted")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
+++ b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static int init_blkcipher_desc(struct bl
static struct key *request_master_key(struct encrypted_key_payload *epayload,
const u8 **master_key, size_t *master_keylen)
{
- struct key *mkey = NULL;
+ struct key *mkey = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

if (!strncmp(epayload->master_desc, KEY_TRUSTED_PREFIX,
KEY_TRUSTED_PREFIX_LEN)) {