Hi!
> Fix a small resource leak on the error path of cipher processing.
I believe this one is wrong.
> @@ -149,10 +148,19 @@ static int cc_cipher_init(struct crypto_tfm *tfm)
> ctx_p->flow_mode = cc_alg->flow_mode;
> ctx_p->drvdata = cc_alg->drvdata;
>
> + if (ctx_p->cipher_mode == DRV_CIPHER_ESSIV) {
> + /* Alloc hash tfm for essiv */
> + ctx_p->shash_tfm = crypto_alloc_shash("sha256-generic", 0, 0);
> + if (IS_ERR(ctx_p->shash_tfm)) {
> + dev_err(dev, "Error allocating hash tfm for ESSIV.\n");
> + return PTR_ERR(ctx_p->shash_tfm);
> + }
> + }
shash_tfm() is only allocated conditionally.
> +free_key:
> + kfree(ctx_p->user.key);
> +free_shash:
> + crypto_free_shash(ctx_p->shash_tfm);
But it is freed unconditionally, and free_shash() is not robust
against NULL pointer due to undefined behaviour in crypto_shash_tfm.
Additionally, it would be cleaner to set ctx_p->shash_tfm to NULL in
this path.
Best regards,
Pavel
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