dm crypt: fix free of bad values after tfm allocation failure
authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:51:44 +0000 (09:51 -0700)
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:45:19 +0000 (19:45 -0400)
If crypt_alloc_tfms() had to allocate multiple tfms and it failed before
the last allocation, then it would call crypt_free_tfms() and could free
pointers from uninitialized memory -- due to the crypt_free_tfms() check
for non-zero cc->tfms[i].  Fix by allocating zeroed memory.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
drivers/md/dm-crypt.c

index d609566c19b069f7b66b61e1155af8f8c3f768bd..874295757caa443a16c6d66723148df91e7c459e 100644 (file)
@@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ static int crypt_alloc_tfms(struct crypt_config *cc, char *ciphermode)
        unsigned i;
        int err;
 
-       cc->tfms = kmalloc(cc->tfms_count * sizeof(struct crypto_skcipher *),
+       cc->tfms = kzalloc(cc->tfms_count * sizeof(struct crypto_skcipher *),
                           GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!cc->tfms)
                return -ENOMEM;