linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] security: keyring: remove redundant NULL check

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Date:	Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:35:40 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	keyrings@...ux-nfs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: keyring: remove redundant NULL check

Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org> wrote:

> -	if (prealloc) {
> -		kfree(prealloc);
> -		key_payload_reserve(keyring,
> -				    keyring->datalen - KEYQUOTA_LINK_BYTES);
> -	}
> +	kfree(prealloc);
> +	key_payload_reserve(keyring,
> +			keyring->datalen - KEYQUOTA_LINK_BYTES);
> +

This is not correct, since you'd be removing the quota allocation for the new
link in the case that __key_link() was called (and cleared *_prealloc).

However, the upstream code isn't correct either, since the preallocation may
not have extended the reservation at all (if it decided to displace a key
rather than adding a key).

David
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