linux-kernel - Re: [GIT] Digital signature library bugfix

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Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:38:24 +0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT] Digital signature library bugfix

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:34 AM, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> wrote:
>
> -       if (!err && len == hlen)
> -               err = memcmp(out2, h, hlen);
> +       if (err || len != hlen) {
> +               err = -EINVAL;
> +               goto err;
> +       }
> +
> +       err = memcmp(out2, h, hlen);
>
>  err:

Hmm. I'll pull, but this seems to drop the error return from
pkcs_1_v1_5_decode_emsa() and always replace it with -EINVAL.

Now, I didn't look, and maybe that's the only error that the decode
thing can return, but still, it looks bad.

Wouldn't it have been better to do instead

   if (err)
      goto err;
   err = -EINVAL;
   if (len != hlen)
      goto err;

and not overwrite the 'err' return with EINVAL?

             Linus
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