[PATCH 05/23] KEYS: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in get_derived_key()

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Thu Jun 8 13:47:56 UTC 2017


From: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>

Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Link: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/LCJ16-Refactor_Strings-WSang_0.pdf
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
---

 security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
index 0010955d7876..2ab48eab29a1 100644
--- a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
+++ b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
@@ -385,10 +385,9 @@ static int get_derived_key(u8 *derived_key, enum derived_key_type key_type,
 		derived_buf_len = HASH_SIZE;
 
 	derived_buf = kzalloc(derived_buf_len, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!derived_buf) {
-		pr_err("encrypted_key: out of memory\n");
+	if (!derived_buf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+
 	if (key_type)
 		strcpy(derived_buf, "AUTH_KEY");
 	else

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