[PATCH 10/14] fscrypt: remove unnecessary check for non-logon key type

Eric Biggers ebiggers3 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 12:23:54 PDT 2018


From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>

We're passing 'key_type_logon' to request_key(), so the found key is
guaranteed to be of type "logon".  Thus, there is no reason to check
later that the key is really a "logon" key.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>
---
 fs/crypto/keyinfo.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/crypto/keyinfo.c b/fs/crypto/keyinfo.c
index 1435a1c81010..4913a4d5204f 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/keyinfo.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/keyinfo.c
@@ -89,12 +89,6 @@ static int validate_user_key(struct fscrypt_info *crypt_info,
 		return PTR_ERR(keyring_key);
 	down_read(&keyring_key->sem);
 
-	if (keyring_key->type != &key_type_logon) {
-		printk_once(KERN_WARNING
-				"%s: key type must be logon\n", __func__);
-		res = -ENOKEY;
-		goto out;
-	}
 	ukp = user_key_payload_locked(keyring_key);
 	if (!ukp) {
 		/* key was revoked before we acquired its semaphore */
-- 
2.17.0.rc0.231.g781580f067-goog




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