Re: [PATCH] crypto: virtio/akcipher - Move a pointer assignment in virtio_crypto_rsa_set_key()

[zhenwei pi]

On 10/12/24 16:06, Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 09:51:58 +0200
>
> Move the reset of the data structure member “n” to a null pointer
> into an if branch so that this assignment will be performed only after
> a key parsing failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_akcipher_algs.c | 5 +++--
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_akcipher_algs.c b/drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_akcipher_algs.c
> index 48fee07b7e51..56557d4778b0 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_akcipher_algs.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_akcipher_algs.c
> @@ -355,7 +355,6 @@ static int virtio_crypto_rsa_set_key(struct crypto_akcipher *tfm,
>
>   	/* mpi_free will test n, just free it. */
>   	mpi_free(rsa_ctx->n);
> -	rsa_ctx->n = NULL;
>
>   	if (private) {
>   		keytype = VIRTIO_CRYPTO_AKCIPHER_KEY_TYPE_PRIVATE;
> @@ -365,8 +364,10 @@ static int virtio_crypto_rsa_set_key(struct crypto_akcipher *tfm,
>   		ret = rsa_parse_pub_key(&rsa_key, key, keylen);
>   	}
>
> -	if (ret)
> +	if (ret) {
> +		rsa_ctx->n = NULL;
>   		return ret;
> +	}
>
>   	rsa_ctx->n = mpi_read_raw_data(rsa_key.n, rsa_key.n_sz);
>   	if (!rsa_ctx->n)
> --

Hi,

This change only reduces a single assignment on a key parsing failure, 
however it breaks the original "free a pointer, and set it to NULL".
I prefer the original style.

Lei, what's your opinion?


> 2.46.1