[PATCH] smb: client: Avoid redundant statements after a failed kmalloc() in SMB2_sess_auth_rawntlmssp_negotiate()

From: Markus Elfring
Date: Thu Oct 09 2025 - 05:05:48 EST


From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2025 10:55:16 +0200

Use an additional label so that statements (which are not useful after
a failed kmalloc() call) can be skipped in this function implementation.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c
index 42e2d4ea344d..ff83d672aa05 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c
@@ -1724,7 +1724,7 @@ SMB2_sess_auth_rawntlmssp_negotiate(struct SMB2_sess_data *sess_data)
ses->ntlmssp = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ntlmssp_auth), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ses->ntlmssp) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
- goto out_err;
+ goto out_set_result;
}
ses->ntlmssp->sesskey_per_smbsess = true;

@@ -1793,6 +1793,7 @@ SMB2_sess_auth_rawntlmssp_negotiate(struct SMB2_sess_data *sess_data)
out_err:
kfree_sensitive(ses->ntlmssp);
ses->ntlmssp = NULL;
+out_set_result:
sess_data->result = rc;
sess_data->func = NULL;
}
--
2.51.0