Aug 11 2010

fs/ecryptfs: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure 

Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

In this code, 0 is returned on memory allocation failure, even though other
failures return -ENOMEM or other similar values.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// 
@@
expression ret;
expression x,e1,e2,e3;
@@

ret = 0
... when != ret = e1
*x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...)
... when != ret = e2
if (x == NULL) { ... when != ret = e3
  return ret;
}
// 

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks 

---
 fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
 
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c b/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c
index 89c5476..73811cf 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c
@@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ ecryptfs_write_tag_70_packet(char *dest, size_t *remaining_bytes,
 	if (!s) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Out of memory whilst trying to kmalloc "
 		       "[%zd] bytes of kernel memory\n", __func__, sizeof(*s));
+		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
 	}
 	s->desc.flags = CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP;
@@ -806,6 +807,7 @@ ecryptfs_parse_tag_70_packet(char **filename, size_t *filename_size,
 	if (!s) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Out of memory whilst trying to kmalloc "
 		       "[%zd] bytes of kernel memory\n", __func__, sizeof(*s));
+		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
 	}
 	s->desc.flags = CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP;

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