Commit ef20c513 authored by Rolf Eike Beer's avatar Rolf Eike Beer Committed by Kees Cook

binfmt_elf: simplify error handling in load_elf_phdrs()

The err variable was the same like retval, but capped to <= 0. This is the
same as retval as elf_read() never returns positive values.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4137126.7Qn9TF0dmF@mobilepool36.emlix.com
parent cfc46ca4
......@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ static struct elf_phdr *load_elf_phdrs(const struct elfhdr *elf_ex,
struct file *elf_file)
{
struct elf_phdr *elf_phdata = NULL;
int retval, err = -1;
int retval = -1;
unsigned int size;
/*
......@@ -484,15 +484,9 @@ static struct elf_phdr *load_elf_phdrs(const struct elfhdr *elf_ex,
/* Read in the program headers */
retval = elf_read(elf_file, elf_phdata, size, elf_ex->e_phoff);
if (retval < 0) {
err = retval;
goto out;
}
/* Success! */
err = 0;
out:
if (err) {
if (retval) {
kfree(elf_phdata);
elf_phdata = NULL;
}
......
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