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List:       kernel-janitors
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] crypto: rsa - add a check for allocation failure
From:       Herbert Xu <herbert () gondor ! apana ! org ! au>
Date:       2023-10-30 9:25:50
Message-ID: ZT92nv/HG5LBTnND () gondor ! apana ! org ! au
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 12:15:19PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>
> The checker is not wrong.  Kernel policy is that every allocation has
> to be checked for failure.  In *current* kernels it won't but we have
> discussed changing this so the policy makes sense.

Nevermind, I misread it as kmalloc(0).  mpi_alloc(0) can indeed
fail because it's not allocating nothing.

I'll take this patch.

Thanks,
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