linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Crypto: Don't use err uninitialized in algif_hash.c:hash

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Date:	Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:19:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jj@...osbits.net
Cc:	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Crypto: Don't use err uninitialized in
 algif_hash.c:hash_sendmsg()

From: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:23:06 +0200 (CEST)

> If af_alg_make_sg() returns <0 in hash_sendmsg() we'll jump to the
> 'unlock' label without having set 'err' to anything. At the 'unlock'
> label the value of 'err' is tested to determine return value of the
> function - not good to base that on a uninitialized variable.
> 
> This patch sets 'err' to the return value of hash_sendmsg() before the
> 'goto' when the value is less than zero, which seems to me to be the
> proper thing to do.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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