[PATCH] afs: Fix uninit var in afs_alloc_anon_key()
From: David Howells
Date: Fri Nov 28 2025 - 19:40:22 EST
Fix an uninitialised variable (key) in afs_alloc_anon_key() by setting it
to cell->anonymous_key. Without this change, the error check may return a
false failure with a bad error number.
Most of the time this is unlikely to happen because the first encounter
with afs_alloc_anon_key() will usually be from (auto)mount, for which all
subsequent operations must wait - apart from other (auto)mounts. Once the
call->anonymous_key is allocated, all further calls to afs_request_key()
will skip the call to afs_alloc_anon_key() for that cell.
Fixes: d27c71257825 ("afs: Fix delayed allocation of a cell's anonymous key")
Reported-by: Paulo Alcantra <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: syzbot+41c68824eefb67cdf00c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-afs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/afs/security.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/afs/security.c b/fs/afs/security.c
index ff8830e6982f..55ddce94af03 100644
--- a/fs/afs/security.c
+++ b/fs/afs/security.c
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ static int afs_alloc_anon_key(struct afs_cell *cell)
struct key *key;
mutex_lock(&afs_key_lock);
- if (!cell->anonymous_key) {
+ key = cell->anonymous_key;
+ if (!key) {
key = rxrpc_get_null_key(cell->key_desc);
if (!IS_ERR(key))
cell->anonymous_key = key;