linux-kernel - [PATCH 8/8] DRBG: remove unnecessary sanity check for shadow state

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Date:	Sun, 17 Aug 2014 17:41:38 +0200
From:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 8/8] DRBG: remove unnecessary sanity check for shadow state

During creation of the DRBG shadow state, it is ensured that the DRBG
state structure is already allocated. Thus, a sanity check for verifying
that the structure is allocated is removed.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
---
 crypto/drbg.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crypto/drbg.c b/crypto/drbg.c
index a556180..f009939 100644
--- a/crypto/drbg.c
+++ b/crypto/drbg.c
@@ -1155,9 +1155,6 @@ static inline int drbg_alloc_state(struct drbg_state *drbg)
 	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 	unsigned int sb_size = 0;
 
-	if (!drbg)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	drbg->V = kmalloc(drbg_statelen(drbg), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!drbg->V)
 		goto err;
-- 
1.9.3


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