[PATCH 2/2] nvme-core: fix memory leak in dhchap_ctrl_secret

Chaitanya Kulkarni kch at nvidia.com
Thu Apr 27 01:04:56 PDT 2023


Free dhchap_secret in nvme_ctrl_dhchap_ctrl_secret_store() before we
return when nvme_auth_generate_key() returns error.

Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index 5a9d97c0c0c1..44408c0c1762 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -3870,8 +3870,10 @@ static ssize_t nvme_ctrl_dhchap_ctrl_secret_store(struct device *dev,
 		int ret;
 
 		ret = nvme_auth_generate_key(dhchap_secret, &key);
-		if (ret)
+		if (ret) {
+			kfree(dhchap_secret);
 			return ret;
+		}
 		kfree(opts->dhchap_ctrl_secret);
 		opts->dhchap_ctrl_secret = dhchap_secret;
 		ctrl_key = ctrl->ctrl_key;
-- 
2.40.0




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