The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 5.18-stable tree. I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst. I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 80a52e1ee7757b742f96bfb0d58f0c14eb6583d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 14:34:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] crypto: qat - fix memory leak in RSA When an RSA key represented in form 2 (as defined in PKCS #1 V2.1) is used, some components of the private key persist even after the TFM is released. Replace the explicit calls to free the buffers in qat_rsa_exit_tfm() with a call to qat_rsa_clear_ctx() which frees all buffers referenced in the TFM context. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 879f77e9071f ("crypto: qat - Add RSA CRT mode") Signed-off-by: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Adam Guerin <adam.guerin@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Wojciech Ziemba <wojciech.ziemba@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_asym_algs.c b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_asym_algs.c index ff7249c093c9..2bc02c75398e 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_asym_algs.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_asym_algs.c @@ -1257,18 +1257,8 @@ static void qat_rsa_exit_tfm(struct crypto_akcipher *tfm) struct qat_rsa_ctx *ctx = akcipher_tfm_ctx(tfm); struct device *dev = &GET_DEV(ctx->inst->accel_dev); - if (ctx->n) - dma_free_coherent(dev, ctx->key_sz, ctx->n, ctx->dma_n); - if (ctx->e) - dma_free_coherent(dev, ctx->key_sz, ctx->e, ctx->dma_e); - if (ctx->d) { - memset(ctx->d, '\0', ctx->key_sz); - dma_free_coherent(dev, ctx->key_sz, ctx->d, ctx->dma_d); - } + qat_rsa_clear_ctx(dev, ctx); qat_crypto_put_instance(ctx->inst); - ctx->n = NULL; - ctx->e = NULL; - ctx->d = NULL; } static struct akcipher_alg rsa = {