This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ubifs: Fix memleak in ubifs_init_authentication to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ubifs-fix-memleak-in-ubifs_init_authentication.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b9051c31436fb902950dd59de57a5735ecc5d7bc Author: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jan 5 14:03:40 2021 +0800 ubifs: Fix memleak in ubifs_init_authentication [ Upstream commit 11b8ab3836454a2600e396f34731e491b661f9d5 ] When crypto_shash_digestsize() fails, c->hmac_tfm has not been freed before returning, which leads to memleak. Fixes: 49525e5eecca5 ("ubifs: Add helper functions for authentication support") Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ubifs/auth.c b/fs/ubifs/auth.c index b10418b5fb719..8be17a7731961 100644 --- a/fs/ubifs/auth.c +++ b/fs/ubifs/auth.c @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ int ubifs_init_authentication(struct ubifs_info *c) ubifs_err(c, "hmac %s is bigger than maximum allowed hmac size (%d > %d)", hmac_name, c->hmac_desc_len, UBIFS_HMAC_ARR_SZ); err = -EINVAL; - goto out_free_hash; + goto out_free_hmac; } err = crypto_shash_setkey(c->hmac_tfm, ukp->data, ukp->datalen);