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SubjectRe: [GIT] Digital signature library bugfix
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:34 AM, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> wrote:
>>
>> - if (!err && len == hlen)
>> - err = memcmp(out2, h, hlen);
>> + if (err || len != hlen) {
>> + err = -EINVAL;
>> + goto err;
>> + }
>> +
>> + err = memcmp(out2, h, hlen);
>>
>> err:
>
> Hmm. I'll pull, but this seems to drop the error return from
> pkcs_1_v1_5_decode_emsa() and always replace it with -EINVAL.
>
> Now, I didn't look, and maybe that's the only error that the decode
> thing can return, but still, it looks bad.
>
> Wouldn't it have been better to do instead
>
> if (err)
> goto err;
> err = -EINVAL;
> if (len != hlen)
> goto err;
>
> and not overwrite the 'err' return with EINVAL?
>

Error code here just means success or failure.
I did not like it either, but that was just to fix a bug (cc:stable)
and I have one patch more to refactor that stuff for mainline kernel.

But I will re-send updated patch in a moment.

Thanks.

> Linus
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