From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

commit 57cb17e764ba0aaa169d07796acce54ccfbc6cae upstream.

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]>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>
---
 security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c 
b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
index 7bef30b..b7d7cff 100644
--- a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
+++ b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ static int init_blkcipher_desc(struct blkcipher_desc *desc, 
const u8 *key,
 static struct key *request_master_key(struct encrypted_key_payload *epayload,
                                      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)) {
-- 
2.8.0.rc2.1.gbe9624a

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