[RFC,3/5] KEYS: trusted: Do not use WARN when encode fails

Commit Message

Jarkko Sakkinen May 18, 2024, 9:36 p.m. UTC

When asn1_encode_sequence() fails, WARN is not the correct solution.

1. asn1_encode_sequence() is not an internal function (located
   in lib/asn1_encode.c).
2. Location is known, which makes the stack trace useless.
3. Results a crash if panic_on_warn is set.

It is also noteworthy that the use of WARN is undocumented, and it
should be avoided unless there is a carefully considered rationale to
use it.

Replace WARN with pr_err, and print the return value instead, which is
only useful piece of information.

Cc: [e-mail] # v5.13+
Fixes: f2219745250f ("security: keys: trusted: use ASN.1 TPM2 key format for the blobs")
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <[e-mail]>
---
 security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm2.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm2.c b/security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm2.c
index dfeec06301ce..dbdd6a318b8b 100644
--- a/security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm2.c
+++ b/security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm2.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@  static int tpm2_key_encode(struct trusted_key_payload *payload,
 	u8 *end_work = scratch + SCRATCH_SIZE;
 	u8 *priv, *pub;
 	u16 priv_len, pub_len;
+	int ret;
 
 	priv_len = get_unaligned_be16(src) + 2;
 	priv = src;
@@ -79,8 +80,11 @@  static int tpm2_key_encode(struct trusted_key_payload *payload,
 	work1 = payload->blob;
 	work1 = asn1_encode_sequence(work1, work1 + sizeof(payload->blob),
 				     scratch, work - scratch);
-	if (WARN(IS_ERR(work1), "BUG: ASN.1 encoder failed"))
-		return PTR_ERR(work1);
+	if (IS_ERR(work1)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(work1);
+		pr_err("ASN.1 encode error %d\n", ret);
+		return ret;
+	}
 
 	return work1 - payload->blob;
 }