[PATCH v2] PM: hibernate: Fix crash when freeing invalid crypto compressor

From: Malaya Kumar Rout

Date: Tue Dec 30 2025 - 06:56:26 EST


When crypto_alloc_acomp() fails, it returns an ERR_PTR value, not NULL.
The cleanup code in save_compressed_image() and load_compressed_image()
unconditionally calls crypto_free_acomp() without checking for ERR_PTR,
which causes crypto_acomp_tfm() to dereference an invalid pointer and
crash the kernel.

This can be triggered when the compression algorithm is unavailable
(e.g., CONFIG_CRYPTO_LZO not enabled).

Fix by adding IS_ERR_OR_NULL() checks before calling crypto_free_acomp()
and acomp_request_free(), similar to the existing kthread_stop() check.

Fixes: b03d542c3c95 ("PM: hibernate: Use crypto_acomp interface")
Signed-off-by: Malaya Kumar Rout <mrout@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/power/swap.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/power/swap.c b/kernel/power/swap.c
index 33a186373bef..8ee2fa995580 100644
--- a/kernel/power/swap.c
+++ b/kernel/power/swap.c
@@ -902,8 +902,10 @@ static int save_compressed_image(struct swap_map_handle *handle,
for (thr = 0; thr < nr_threads; thr++) {
if (data[thr].thr)
kthread_stop(data[thr].thr);
- acomp_request_free(data[thr].cr);
- crypto_free_acomp(data[thr].cc);
+ if (data[thr].cr)
+ acomp_request_free(data[thr].cr);
+ if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(data[thr].cc))
+ crypto_free_acomp(data[thr].cc);
}
vfree(data);
}
@@ -1499,8 +1501,10 @@ static int load_compressed_image(struct swap_map_handle *handle,
for (thr = 0; thr < nr_threads; thr++) {
if (data[thr].thr)
kthread_stop(data[thr].thr);
- acomp_request_free(data[thr].cr);
- crypto_free_acomp(data[thr].cc);
+ if (data[thr].cr)
+ acomp_request_free(data[thr].cr);
+ if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(data[thr].cc))
+ crypto_free_acomp(data[thr].cc);
}
vfree(data);
}
--
2.52.0