Eric Biggers <ebigge...@gmail.com> wrote:

> In request_key_auth_new(), if alloc_key() or key_instantiate_and_link()
> were to fail, we would leak a reference to the 'struct cred'.  Currently
> this can only happen if alloc_key() fails to to allocate memory.  But it
> still should be fixed, as it is a more severe bug waiting to happen.

It might be better to combine request_key_auth_destroy() and the error path
that you're altering in request_key_auth_new() by pulling it into a separate
function.

David

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