Given that crypto_alloc_tfm() may return ERR pointers, and to avoid crashes on obscure error paths where such pointers are presented to crypto_destroy_tfm() (such as [0]), add an ERR_PTR check there before dereferencing the second argument as a struct crypto_tfm pointer. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/000000000000de949705bc59e0f6@xxxxxxxxxx/ Reported-by: syzbot+12cf5fbfdeba210a89dd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- crypto/api.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/crypto/api.c b/crypto/api.c index ed08cbd5b9d3..c4eda56cff89 100644 --- a/crypto/api.c +++ b/crypto/api.c @@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ void crypto_destroy_tfm(void *mem, struct crypto_tfm *tfm) { struct crypto_alg *alg; - if (unlikely(!mem)) + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mem)) return; alg = tfm->__crt_alg; -- 2.30.1
