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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Tianjia Zhang <tianjia.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Xufeng Zhang <yunbo.xufeng@linux.alibaba.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] lib/mpi: Remove unused scalar_copied
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 16:58:18 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201008055818.GB9813@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200928182438.GA11739@embeddedor>

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 01:24:38PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> 
> I'm reporting the following bug detected by Coverity:
> 
> The _scalar_copied_ variable is set to 0 at
> 
> lib/mpi/ec.c:1255:
> 1255                 int scalar_copied = 0;
> 
> and it is never updated before reaching the code below:
> 
> lib/mpi/ec.c:1317
> 1317                 if (scalar_copied)                                                         
> 1318                         mpi_free(scalar);
> 
> This code was introduced by commit d58bb7e55a8a ("lib/mpi: Introduce ec
> implementation to MPI library")
> 
> Any ideas on what's the right solution for this?

I think it should be removed.

---8<---
The scalar_copied variable is not as the scalar is never copied
in that block.  This patch removes it.

Fixes: d58bb7e55a8a ("lib/mpi: Introduce ec implementation to...")
Reported-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/lib/mpi/ec.c b/lib/mpi/ec.c
index c21470122dfc..40f5908e57a4 100644
--- a/lib/mpi/ec.c
+++ b/lib/mpi/ec.c
@@ -1252,7 +1252,6 @@ void mpi_ec_mul_point(MPI_POINT result,
 		MPI_POINT q1, q2, prd, sum;
 		unsigned long sw;
 		mpi_size_t rsize;
-		int scalar_copied = 0;
 
 		/* Compute scalar point multiplication with Montgomery Ladder.
 		 * Note that we don't use Y-coordinate in the points at all.
@@ -1314,8 +1313,6 @@ void mpi_ec_mul_point(MPI_POINT result,
 		point_free(&p2);
 		point_free(&p1_);
 		point_free(&p2_);
-		if (scalar_copied)
-			mpi_free(scalar);
 		return;
 	}
 
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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      reply	other threads:[~2020-10-08  5:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-28 18:24 Reporting bug in mpi_ec_mul_point() Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-10-08  5:58 ` Herbert Xu [this message]

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