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ksmbd: use aead_request_free to match aead_request_alloc

Message ID 20250318121234.7756-1-linmq006@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series ksmbd: use aead_request_free to match aead_request_alloc | expand

Commit Message

Miaoqian Lin March 18, 2025, 12:12 p.m. UTC 
Use aead_request_free() instead of kfree() to properly free memory
allocated by aead_request_alloc(). This ensures sensitive crypto data
is zeroed before being freed.

Fixes: e2f34481b24d ("cifsd: add server-side procedures for SMB3")
Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
---
 fs/smb/server/auth.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Namjae Jeon March 18, 2025, 1:14 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Use aead_request_free() instead of kfree() to properly free memory
> allocated by aead_request_alloc(). This ensures sensitive crypto data
> is zeroed before being freed.
>
> Fixes: e2f34481b24d ("cifsd: add server-side procedures for SMB3")
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
Applied it to #ksmbd-for-next-next.
Thanks!
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diff --git a/fs/smb/server/auth.c b/fs/smb/server/auth.c
index 2a5b4a96bf99..00b31cf86462 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/auth.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/auth.c
@@ -1218,7 +1218,7 @@  int ksmbd_crypt_message(struct ksmbd_work *work, struct kvec *iov,
 free_sg:
 	kfree(sg);
 free_req:
-	kfree(req);
+	aead_request_free(req);
 free_ctx:
 	ksmbd_release_crypto_ctx(ctx);
 	return rc;