[PATCH 4.19 146/168] crypto: qat - fix double free in qat_uclo_create_batch_init_list

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-08-17T17:38:46Z

From: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>

commit c06c76602e03bde24ee69a2022a829127e504202 upstream.

clang static analysis flags this error

qat_uclo.c:297:3: warning: Attempt to free released memory
[unix.Malloc]
kfree(*init_tab_base);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

When input *init_tab_base is null, the function allocates memory for
the head of the list. When there is problem allocating other list
elements the list is unwound and freed. Then a check is made if the
list head was allocated and is also freed.

Keeping track of the what may need to be freed is the variable 'tail_old'.
The unwinding/freeing block is

while (tail_old) {
mem_init = tail_old->next;
kfree(tail_old);
tail_old = mem_init;
}

The problem is that the first element of tail_old is also what was
allocated for the list head

init_header = kzalloc(sizeof(*init_header), GFP_KERNEL);
...
*init_tab_base = init_header;
flag = 1;
}
tail_old = init_header;

So *init_tab_base/init_header are freed twice.

There is another problem.
When the input *init_tab_base is non null the tail_old is calculated by
traveling down the list to first non null entry.

tail_old = init_header;
while (tail_old->next)
tail_old = tail_old->next;

When the unwinding free happens, the last entry of the input list will
be freed.

So the freeing needs a general changed.
If locally allocated the first element of tail_old is freed, else it
is skipped. As a bit of cleanup, reset *init_tab_base if it came in
as null.

Fixes: b4b7e67c917f ("crypto: qat - Intel(R) QAT ucode part of fw loader")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_uclo.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_uclo.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_uclo.c
@@ -332,13 +332,18 @@ static int qat_uclo_create_batch_init_li
}
return 0;
out_err:
+ /* Do not free the list head unless we allocated it. */
+ tail_old = tail_old->next;
+ if (flag) {
+ kfree(*init_tab_base);
+ *init_tab_base = NULL;
+ }
+
while (tail_old) {
mem_init = tail_old->next;
kfree(tail_old);
tail_old = mem_init;
}
- if (flag)
- kfree(*init_tab_base);
return -ENOMEM;
}