This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nvme-core: fix memory leak in dhchap_ctrl_secret
to the 6.1-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:
nvme-core-fix-memory-leak-in-dhchap_ctrl_secret.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 516bf6424106f02351c6f78b0edf5b9de2dd4c97
Author: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Apr 28 00:31:13 2023 -0700
nvme-core: fix memory leak in dhchap_ctrl_secret
[ Upstream commit 99c2dcc8ffc24e210a3aa05c204d92f3ef460b05 ]
Free dhchap_secret in nvme_ctrl_dhchap_ctrl_secret_store() before we
return when nvme_auth_generate_key() returns error.
Fixes: f50fff73d620 ("nvme: implement In-Band authentication")
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index 3956164272253..2b07a67958b46 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -3880,14 +3880,17 @@ static ssize_t nvme_ctrl_dhchap_ctrl_secret_store(struct device *dev,
int ret;
ret = nvme_auth_generate_key(dhchap_secret, &key);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
+ kfree(dhchap_secret);
return ret;
+ }
kfree(opts->dhchap_ctrl_secret);
opts->dhchap_ctrl_secret = dhchap_secret;
ctrl_key = ctrl->ctrl_key;
ctrl->ctrl_key = key;
nvme_auth_free_key(ctrl_key);
- }
+ } else
+ kfree(dhchap_secret);
/* Start re-authentication */
dev_info(ctrl->device, "re-authenticating controller\n");
queue_work(nvme_wq, &ctrl->dhchap_auth_work);
