From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Aloni Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 23:34:35 +0200 Message-Id: <20180113213441.52047-2-dan@kernelim.com> In-Reply-To: <20180113213441.52047-1-dan@kernelim.com> References: <20180113213441.52047-1-dan@kernelim.com> Subject: [kernel-hardening] [PATCHv2 1/7] crypto: fix memory leak in rsa-kcs1pad encryption To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: Herbert Xu List-ID: The encryption mode of pkcs1pad never uses out_sg and out_buf, so there's no need to allocate the buffer, which presently is not even being freed. CC: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni --- crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c b/crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c index 2908f93c3e55..e8354084ef4e 100644 --- a/crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c +++ b/crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c @@ -261,15 +261,6 @@ static int pkcs1pad_encrypt(struct akcipher_request *req) pkcs1pad_sg_set_buf(req_ctx->in_sg, req_ctx->in_buf, ctx->key_size - 1 - req->src_len, req->src); - req_ctx->out_buf = kmalloc(ctx->key_size, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!req_ctx->out_buf) { - kfree(req_ctx->in_buf); - return -ENOMEM; - } - - pkcs1pad_sg_set_buf(req_ctx->out_sg, req_ctx->out_buf, - ctx->key_size, NULL); - akcipher_request_set_tfm(&req_ctx->child_req, ctx->child); akcipher_request_set_callback(&req_ctx->child_req, req->base.flags, pkcs1pad_encrypt_sign_complete_cb, req); -- 2.14.3