Re: [PATCH v6 2/9] keys/trusted_keys: fix PKWM output buffer cleanup

From: Jarkko Sakkinen

Date: Thu Nov 05 2026 - 12:21:02 EST


On Thu, Nov 05, 2026 at 08:13:13PM +0530, Srish Srinivasan wrote:
> The PKWM seal and unseal paths unconditionally free their output buffers,
> but the PLPKS helpers can return without initializing those pointers.
>
> Initialize the output buffer pointers to NULL to make cleanup safe on early
> failure paths.
>
> Fixes: c99fcb0d735b ("keys/trusted_keys: establish PKWM as a trusted source")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 7.0
> Signed-off-by: Srish Srinivasan <ssrish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_pkwm.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_pkwm.c b/security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_pkwm.c
> index 422f752598e1..97ffec0ce1b7 100644
> --- a/security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_pkwm.c
> +++ b/security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_pkwm.c
> @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static int trusted_pkwm_seal(struct trusted_key_payload *p, char *datablob)
> {
> struct trusted_key_options *options = NULL;
> struct trusted_pkwm_options *pkwm = NULL;
> - u8 *input_buf, *output_buf;
> + u8 *input_buf, *output_buf = NULL;
> u32 output_len, input_len;
> int rc;
>
> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ static int trusted_pkwm_seal(struct trusted_key_payload *p, char *datablob)
>
> static int trusted_pkwm_unseal(struct trusted_key_payload *p, char *datablob)
> {
> - u8 *input_buf, *output_buf;
> + u8 *input_buf, *output_buf = NULL;
> u32 input_len, output_len;
> int rc;
>
> --
> 2.52.0
>

Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx>

Br, Jarkko