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crypto: cryptd - Fix skcipher instance memory leak

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commit 1a0fad630e0b7cff38e7691b28b0517cfbb0633f upstream.

cryptd_skcipher_free() fails to free the struct skcipher_instance
allocated in cryptd_create_skcipher(), leading to a memory leak.  This
is detected by kmemleak on bootup on ARM64 platforms:

 unreferenced object 0xffff80003377b180 (size 1024):
   comm "cryptomgr_probe", pid 822, jiffies 4294894830 (age 52.760s)
   backtrace:
     kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x270/0x2d0
     cryptd_create+0x990/0x124c
     cryptomgr_probe+0x5c/0x1e8
     kthread+0x258/0x318
     ret_from_fork+0x10/0x1c

Fixes: 4e0958d19bd8 ("crypto: cryptd - Add support for skcipher")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Vincent Whitchurch 2019-07-02 09:53:25 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent d06037bc12
commit a86c45d26c
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@ -585,6 +585,7 @@ static void cryptd_skcipher_free(struct skcipher_instance *inst)
struct skcipherd_instance_ctx *ctx = skcipher_instance_ctx(inst);
crypto_drop_skcipher(&ctx->spawn);
kfree(inst);
}
static int cryptd_create_skcipher(struct crypto_template *tmpl,