RE: [PATCH] rfc4106, Intel, AES-NI: Don't leak memory inrfc4106_set_hash_subkey().

[Paoloni, Gabriele]

Well anyway I think that the return value of "ablkcipher_request_alloc(ctr_tfm, GFP_KERNEL)" has to be changed from -EINVAL to -ENOMEM in case of failure. That is why would stay on the patch that Tadeusz proposed. Otherwise Juhl should send another one....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pavel@xxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 2:27 PM
> To: Jesper Juhl
> Cc: Struk, Tadeusz; herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; O Mahony, Aidan;
> Paoloni, Gabriele; Hoban, Adrian
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] rfc4106, Intel, AES-NI: Don't leak memory in
> rfc4106_set_hash_subkey().
> 
> On Mon 2011-02-07 19:24:43, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > From:
> > > Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:41:11 +0000
> > > Subject: RE: [PATCH] rfc4106, Intel, AES-NI: Don't leak memory in
> rfc4106_set_hash_subkey().
> > >
> > > Hi Jesper,
> > > Thanks, but I think there is still a problem here. You don't want
> to kfree req_data
> > > when the kmalloc failed. I think it should look as follows.
> > > Are you ok with this?
> > >
> > Fine by me.
> >
> > I was aware of the kfree(NULL) thing, but desided to leave it as is
> for
> > two reasons - 1) kfree(NULL) is harmless and this is an error path,
> so the
> > extra function call doesn't matter much. 2) I wanted to preserve
> > deallocations in the reverse order of the allocations. But sure,
> moving
> > that kfree is a tiny optimization of the error path, so I'm fine with
> it.
> 
> I don't think such optimalization is worth doing... original code is
> as good but shorter and less complex...
> 
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