linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KEYS: remove unnecessary get/put of explicit dest

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Date:   Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:37:50 -0800
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KEYS: remove unnecessary get/put of explicit dest_keyring

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 03:52:05PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > -			construct_get_dest_keyring(&dest_keyring);
> 
> This will break.  construct_get_dest_keyring() does other things than just
> getting a ref on whatever dest_keyring points to.
> 

Not if dest_keyring is non-NULL (i.e. explicitly specified), which it is in this
case.

Eric