From: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 06:06:56 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Fix pointer deref
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~31522^2~20^2~238
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7bd473fcc217adec000f213e8864bf9a161d57e1;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

[PATCH] eCryptfs: Fix pointer deref

I missed a pointer dereference in this kmalloc result check.

Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
index f49f105394b7..136175a69332 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ int ecryptfs_crypto_api_algify_cipher_name(char **algified_name,
 
 	algified_name_len = (chaining_modifier_len + cipher_name_len + 3);
 	(*algified_name) = kmalloc(algified_name_len, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!(algified_name)) {
+	if (!(*algified_name)) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
 	}