linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c: Fix a crash due to incorrect cleanup usage of kfree

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Message-ID: <e584b8d6-2469-4d62-8689-b9a22b43c569@amd.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 14:12:33 -0600
From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
To: Ella Ma <alansnape3058@...il.com>, john.allen@....com,
 herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, davem@...emloft.net, arnd@...db.de
Cc: linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 julia.lawall@...ia.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c: Fix a crash due to
 incorrect cleanup usage of kfree

On 1/8/26 09:29, Ella Ma wrote:
> Annotating a local pointer variable, which will be assigned with the
> kmalloc-family functions, with the `__cleanup(kfree)` attribute will
> make the address of the local variable, rather than the address returned
> by kmalloc, passed to kfree directly and lead to a crash due to invalid
> deallocation of stack address. According to other places in the repo,
> the correct usage should be `__free(kfree)`. The code coincidentally
> compiled because the parameter type `void *` of kfree is compatible with
> the desired type `struct { ... } **`.
> 
> Fixes: a71475582ada ("crypto: ccp - reduce stack usage in ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd")
> Signed-off-by: Ella Ma <alansnape3058@...il.com>

As was pointed out by Markus, subject should be "crypto: ccp - Fix a ... "

Otherwise,

Acked-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@...il.com>

> ---
> 
> I don't have the machine to actually test the changed place. So I tried
> locally with a simple test module. The crash happens right when the
> module is being loaded.
> 
> ```C
> #include <linux/init.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> static int __init custom_init(void) {
>   printk(KERN_INFO "Crash reproduce for drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c");
>   int *p __cleanup(kfree) = kzalloc(sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
>   *p = 42;
>   return 0;
> }
> static void __exit custom_exit(void) {}
> module_init(custom_init);
> module_exit(custom_exit);
> ```
> 
> BESIDES, scripts/checkpatch.pl reports a coding style issue originally
> existing in the code, `sizeof *wa`, I fixed this together in this patch.
> 
>  drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c b/drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c
> index d78865d9d5f0..f80a92006666 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c
> @@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd(struct ccp_cmd_queue *cmd_q, struct ccp_cmd *cmd)
>  		struct ccp_data dst;
>  		struct ccp_data aad;
>  		struct ccp_op op;
> -	} *wa __cleanup(kfree) = kzalloc(sizeof *wa, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	} *wa __free(kfree) = kzalloc(sizeof(*wa), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	unsigned int dm_offset;
>  	unsigned int authsize;
>  	unsigned int jobid;