[PATCH 5.4 16/71] Revert "evm: Fix memleak in init_desc"

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From: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 51dd64bb99e4478fc5280171acd8e1b529eadaf7 upstream.

This reverts commit ccf11dbaa07b328fa469415c362d33459c140a37.

Commit ccf11dbaa07b ("evm: Fix memleak in init_desc") said there is
memleak in init_desc. That may be incorrect, as we can see, tmp_tfm is
saved in one of the two global variables hmac_tfm or evm_tfm[hash_algo],
then if init_desc is called next time, there is no need to alloc tfm
again, so in the error path of kmalloc desc or crypto_shash_init(desc),
It is not a problem without freeing tmp_tfm.

And also that commit did not reset the global variable to NULL after
freeing tmp_tfm and this makes *tfm a dangling pointer which may cause a
UAF issue.

Reported-by: Guozihua (Scott) <guozihua@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c |    7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c
+++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static struct shash_desc *init_desc(char
 {
 	long rc;
 	const char *algo;
-	struct crypto_shash **tfm, *tmp_tfm = NULL;
+	struct crypto_shash **tfm, *tmp_tfm;
 	struct shash_desc *desc;
 
 	if (type == EVM_XATTR_HMAC) {
@@ -120,16 +120,13 @@ unlock:
 alloc:
 	desc = kmalloc(sizeof(*desc) + crypto_shash_descsize(*tfm),
 			GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!desc) {
-		crypto_free_shash(tmp_tfm);
+	if (!desc)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-	}
 
 	desc->tfm = *tfm;
 
 	rc = crypto_shash_init(desc);
 	if (rc) {
-		crypto_free_shash(tmp_tfm);
 		kfree(desc);
 		return ERR_PTR(rc);
 	}





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