From c1a88bb20bd87204e83588bcc23490b291205d33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 17:17:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] KEYS: Fix an error code in request_master_key() 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 Acked-by: Mimi Zohar Signed-off-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c index 7c5d1d864c1b..720eb8164d2b 100644 --- a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c +++ b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static int init_blkcipher_desc(struct blkcipher_desc *desc, const u8 *key, static struct key *request_master_key(struct encrypted_key_payload *epayload, 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)) { -- 2.39.2