[PATCH] KEYS: remove unnecessary get/put of explicit dest_keyring

* [PATCH] KEYS: remove unnecessary get/put of explicit dest_keyring
@ 2017-11-20 22:57 ` Eric Biggers
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From: Eric Biggers @ 2017-11-20 22:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-security-module

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

In request_key_and_link(), in the case where the dest_keyring was
explicitly specified, there is no need to get another reference to
dest_keyring before calling key_link(), then drop it afterwards.  This
is because by definition, we already have a reference to dest_keyring.

This change is useful because we'll be making
construct_get_dest_keyring() able to return an error code, and we don't
want to have to handle that error here for no reason.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---
 security/keys/request_key.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c
index e8036cd0ad54..c6880af8b411 100644
--- a/security/keys/request_key.c
+++ b/security/keys/request_key.c
@@ -546,9 +546,7 @@ struct key *request_key_and_link(struct key_type *type,
 	if (!IS_ERR(key_ref)) {
 		key = key_ref_to_ptr(key_ref);
 		if (dest_keyring) {
-			construct_get_dest_keyring(&dest_keyring);
 			ret = key_link(dest_keyring, key);
-			key_put(dest_keyring);
 			if (ret < 0) {
 				key_put(key);
 				key = ERR_PTR(ret);
-- 
2.15.0.448.gf294e3d99a-goog


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