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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] RFC: p9auth: add p9auth fs
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Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> + result = kzalloc(MAX_DIGEST_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> ...
> + ret = crypto_hash_digest(&desc, &sg, plain_text_size, result);

Does result have to be pre-cleared?

> + user_buf = kzalloc(count+1, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!user_buf)
> + goto out;
> +
> + if (copy_from_user(user_buf, buffer, count)) {

user_buf doesn't need preclearing. It's just a waste of time. This occurs
three times.

David


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