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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 12:20:19 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@...il.com>,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>,
Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>,
linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev,
patches@...ts.linux.dev,
Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: qce - revert "use __free() for a buffer that's
always freed"
On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 01:11:17PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Commit ce8fd0500b74 ("crypto: qce - use __free() for a buffer that's
> always freed") introduced a buggy use of __free(), which clang
> rightfully points out:
>
> drivers/crypto/qce/sha.c:365:3: error: cannot jump from this goto statement to its label
> 365 | goto err_free_ahash;
> | ^
> drivers/crypto/qce/sha.c:373:6: note: jump bypasses initialization of variable with __attribute__((cleanup))
> 373 | u8 *buf __free(kfree) = kzalloc(keylen + QCE_MAX_ALIGN_SIZE,
> | ^
>
> Jumping over a variable declared with the cleanup attribute does not
> prevent the cleanup function from running; instead, the cleanup function
> is called with an uninitialized value.
>
> Moving the declaration back to the top function with __free() and a NULL
> initialization would resolve the bug but that is really not much
> different from the original code. Since the function is so simple and
> there is no functional reason to use __free() here, just revert the
> original change to resolve the issue.
>
> Fixes: ce8fd0500b74 ("crypto: qce - use __free() for a buffer that's always freed")
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@...aro.org>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CA+G9fYtpAwXa5mUQ5O7vDLK2xN4t-kJoxgUe1ZFRT=AGqmLSRA@mail.gmail.com/
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> ---
> drivers/crypto/qce/sha.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Patch applied. Thanks.
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