linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] scripts/coccinelle: catch freeing cryptographic structures via kfree

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Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:14:20 +0400
From:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov@...sung.com>
To:	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
	Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] scripts/coccinelle: catch freeing cryptographic structures
 via kfree

Structures allocated by crypto_alloc_* must be freed using crypto_free_*.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov@...sung.com>
---
 scripts/coccinelle/free/crypto_free.cocci |   45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 scripts/coccinelle/free/crypto_free.cocci

diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/free/crypto_free.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/free/crypto_free.cocci
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0799b70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/coccinelle/free/crypto_free.cocci
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+///
+/// Structures allocated by crypto_alloc_* must be freed using crypto_free_*.
+/// This finds freeing them by kfree.
+///
+// Confidence: Moderate
+// Copyright: (C) 2014 Konstantin Khlebnikov,  GPLv2.
+// Comments: There are false positives in crypto/ where they are actually freed.
+// Keywords: crypto, kfree
+// Options: --no-includes --include-headers
+
+virtual org
+virtual report
+virtual context
+
+@r depends on context || org || report@
+expression x;
+identifier crypto_alloc =~ "^crypto_alloc_";
+@@
+
+(
+ x = crypto_alloc(...)
+)
+
+@pb@
+expression r.x;
+position p;
+@@
+
+(
+* kfree@p(x)
+)
+
+@...ipt:python depends on org@
+p << pb.p;
+@@
+
+msg="WARNING: invalid free of crypto_alloc_* allocated data"
+coccilib.org.print_todo(p[0], msg)
+
+@...ipt:python depends on report@
+p << pb.p;
+@@
+
+msg="WARNING: invalid free of crypto_alloc_* allocated data"
+coccilib.report.print_report(p[0], msg)

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