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[PATCH v2 02/10] pseries/plpks: fix error handling in plpks_read_var()

From: Srish Srinivasan <ssrish@linux.ibm.com>
Date: 2026-08-31 11:17:57
Also in: keyrings, linux-integrity, linux-security-module, lkml
Subsystem: linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers: Madhavan Srinivasan, Linus Torvalds

When a plpks variable is initialized without a policy and used to read an
object with the 'wrapping key' policy set, the hypervisor returns
H_AUTHORITY along with the object's policy. However, plpks_read_var() at
present treats this the same as any other H_AUTHORITY failure and returns
an error without propagating the policy information to the caller.

Distinguish this case from other H_AUTHORITY failures and only propagate
policy information when it is returned alongside H_AUTHORITY by the
hypervisor. Remove the explicit assignment of rc to zero in the case of
H_SUCCESS as it is redundant.

Also return -EPERM instead of -EINVAL when the 'wrapping key' policy bit is
set by the caller, better reflecting the access restriction being enforced.

Fixes: 2454a7af0f2a ("powerpc/pseries: define driver for Platform KeyStore")
Fixes: 133aa79e211d ("pseries/plpks: add HCALLs for PowerVM Key Wrapping Module")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Srish Srinivasan <ssrish@linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c
index 23e4e2a922fc..7bd5c149dd09 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ static int plpks_read_var(u8 consumer, struct plpks_var *var)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (var->policy & PLPKS_WRAPPINGKEY)
-		return -EINVAL;
+		return -EPERM;
 
 	auth = construct_auth(consumer);
 	if (IS_ERR(auth))
@@ -856,22 +856,21 @@ static int plpks_read_var(u8 consumer, struct plpks_var *var)
 				 virt_to_phys(var->name), var->namelen, virt_to_phys(output),
 				 maxobjsize);
 
-
 	if (rc != H_SUCCESS) {
 		rc = pseries_status_to_err(rc);
-		goto out_free_output;
+		if (rc != -EPERM || !retbuf[1])
+			goto out_free_output;
+		goto out_copy_policy;
 	}
 
 	if (!var->data || var->datalen > retbuf[0])
 		var->datalen = retbuf[0];
 
-	var->policy = retbuf[1];
-
 	if (var->data)
 		memcpy(var->data, output, var->datalen);
 
-	rc = 0;
-
+out_copy_policy:
+	var->policy = retbuf[1];
 out_free_output:
 	kfree(output);
 out_free_label:
-- 
2.52.0

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