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);
