[PATCH v3 4/4] crypto: ccp: Fix memory leak in SEV INIT_EX path
From: Atish Patra
Date: Tue Jun 02 2026 - 18:42:00 EST
From: Atish Patra <atishp@xxxxxxxx>
allocated pages in _init_ext_path are never freed and sev_init_ex_buffer
is left pointing at the leaked memory in case of any failures during the
function..
Fix by adding an error path that frees the pages and clears
sev_init_ex_buffer. Make sure we only free the memory if the failure
happens before the conversion. Otherwise, we may end up trying to free
up converted pages in case of reclaim failure. rmp_mark_pages_firmware
failures should be rare enough to avoid more code complexity to track
down which pages were reclaimed/leaked vs which are not.
Fixes: 7364a6fbca45 ("crypto: ccp: Handle non-volatile INIT_EX data when SNP is enabled")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atishp@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c b/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
index 3d4793e8e34b..57b4c1e79589 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
@@ -1540,7 +1540,7 @@ static int __sev_platform_init_handle_init_ex_path(struct sev_device *sev)
if (sev_init_ex_buffer)
return 0;
- page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, get_order(NV_LENGTH));
+ page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, get_order(NV_LENGTH));
if (!page) {
dev_err(sev->dev, "SEV: INIT_EX NV memory allocation failed\n");
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1550,7 +1550,7 @@ static int __sev_platform_init_handle_init_ex_path(struct sev_device *sev)
rc = sev_read_init_ex_file();
if (rc)
- return rc;
+ goto err_free;
/* If SEV-SNP is initialized, transition to firmware page. */
if (sev->snp_initialized) {
@@ -1559,11 +1559,22 @@ static int __sev_platform_init_handle_init_ex_path(struct sev_device *sev)
npages = 1UL << get_order(NV_LENGTH);
if (rmp_mark_pages_firmware(__pa(sev_init_ex_buffer), npages, true)) {
dev_err(sev->dev, "SEV: INIT_EX NV memory page state change failed.\n");
- return -ENOMEM;
+ rc = -ENOMEM;
+ /*
+ * Pages can be in an inconsistent state, don't release them back to the
+ * system.
+ */
+ goto err_reset;
}
}
return 0;
+
+err_free:
+ __free_pages(page, get_order(NV_LENGTH));
+err_reset:
+ sev_init_ex_buffer = NULL;
+ return rc;
}
static int __sev_platform_init_locked(int *error)
--
2.53.0-Meta