[PATCH] drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c: Fix a crash due to incorrect cleanup usage of kfree
From: Ella Ma
Date: Thu Jan 08 2026 - 11:51:45 EST
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@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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;
--
2.34.1