Re: [PATCH v5 03/25] powerpc/secvar: Fix incorrect return in secvar_sysfs_load()

[Stefan Berger]

On 1/31/23 01:39, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> From: Russell Currey <ruscur@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> secvar_ops->get_next() returns -ENOENT when there are no more variables
> to return, which is expected behaviour.
>
> Fix this by returning 0 if get_next() returns -ENOENT.
>
> This fixes an issue introduced in commit bd5d9c743d38 ("powerpc: expose
> secure variables to userspace via sysfs"), but the return code of
> secvar_sysfs_load() was never checked so this issue never mattered.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> v5: New patch
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/secvar-sysfs.c | 6 ++++--
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/secvar-sysfs.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/secvar-sysfs.c
> index 1ee4640a2641..7fa5f8ed9542 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/secvar-sysfs.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/secvar-sysfs.c
> @@ -179,8 +179,10 @@ static int secvar_sysfs_load(void)
>   		rc = secvar_ops->get_next(name, &namesize, NAME_MAX_SIZE);
>   		if (rc) {
>   			if (rc != -ENOENT)
> -				pr_err("error getting secvar from firmware %d\n",
> -				       rc);
> +				pr_err("error getting secvar from firmware %d\n", rc);
> +			else
> +				rc = 0;
> +
>   			break;
>   		}
>   

Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>