Re: [PATCH] nvme-auth: Uninitialized variable in nvme_auth_transform_key()

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 7/18/22 13:10, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> A couple of the early error gotos call kfree_sensitive(transformed_key);
> before "transformed_key" has been initialized.
>
> Fixes: a476416bb57b ("nvme: implement In-Band authentication")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I wrote this several times in different ways, and kept on doing it
> wrong so in the end I wrote it this way.  It's a bigger diff, but I
> think it's the clearest way to write it.
>
>   drivers/nvme/common/auth.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++---------
>   1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/common/auth.c b/drivers/nvme/common/auth.c
> index bfb16fec0aed..1890193c7333 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/common/auth.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/common/auth.c
> @@ -278,26 +278,33 @@ u8 *nvme_auth_transform_key(struct nvme_dhchap_key *key, char *nqn)
>   	shash->tfm = key_tfm;
>   	ret = crypto_shash_setkey(key_tfm, key->key, key->len);
>   	if (ret < 0)
> -		goto out_free_shash;
> +		goto out_free_transformed_key;
>   	ret = crypto_shash_init(shash);
>   	if (ret < 0)
> -		goto out_free_shash;
> +		goto out_free_transformed_key;
>   	ret = crypto_shash_update(shash, nqn, strlen(nqn));
>   	if (ret < 0)
> -		goto out_free_shash;
> +		goto out_free_transformed_key;
>   	ret = crypto_shash_update(shash, "NVMe-over-Fabrics", 17);
>   	if (ret < 0)
> -		goto out_free_shash;
> +		goto out_free_transformed_key;
>   	ret = crypto_shash_final(shash, transformed_key);
> +	if (ret < 0)
> +		goto out_free_transformed_key;
> +
> +	kfree(shash);
> +	crypto_free_shash(key_tfm);
> +
> +	return transformed_key;
> +
> +out_free_transformed_key:
> +	kfree_sensitive(transformed_key);
>   out_free_shash:
>   	kfree(shash);
>   out_free_key:
>   	crypto_free_shash(key_tfm);
> -	if (ret < 0) {
> -		kfree_sensitive(transformed_key);
> -		return ERR_PTR(ret);
> -	}
> -	return transformed_key;
> +
> +	return ERR_PTR(ret);
>   }
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvme_auth_transform_key);
>   
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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