Hi Dan,
On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 12:08 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This function has two callers and neither are able to handle a NULL
> return. Really, -EINVAL is the correct thing return here anyway. This
> fixes some static checker warnings like:
>
> security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c:709 encrypted_key_decrypt()
> error: uninitialized symbol 'master_key'.
>
> Fixes: 7e70cb497850 ("keys: add new key-type encrypted")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Thanks!
Mimi
> diff --git a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
> b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
> index 17a06105ccb6..d7a4969b2dd3 100644
> --- a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
> +++ b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
> @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ static struct skcipher_request *init_skcipher_req(const
> u8 *key,
> static struct key *request_master_key(struct encrypted_key_payload *epayload,
> const u8 **master_key, size_t
> *master_keylen)
> {
> - struct key *mkey = NULL;
> + struct key *mkey = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>
> if (!strncmp(epayload->master_desc, KEY_TRUSTED_PREFIX,
> KEY_TRUSTED_PREFIX_LEN)) {
>
