Re: [PATCH v3] s390/pkey: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 08.11.19 18:14, Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 17:50:22 +0100
> 
> Reuse existing functionality from memdup_user() instead of keeping
> duplicate source code.
> 
> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci
> 
> * The function "_copy_apqns_from_user" contained a memory leak
>   because of a missing function call "kfree(kapqns)" for an if branch.
>   Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/833d7d5e-6ede-6bdd-a2cc-2da7f0b03908@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
>   Thus complete the exception handling by this code replacement.
> 
> * Delete local variables which became unnecessary with this refactoring
>   in two function implementations.
> 
> Fixes: f2bbc96e7cfad3891b7bf9bd3e566b9b7ab4553d ("s390/pkey: add CCA AES cipher key support")
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

You were sending this from a different email address. Can you use the same for
the sender and the signoff?



Can you also change the subject to indicate the "fix". e.g. something like

s390/pkey: fix memory leak in error case by using memdup_user() rather than open coding