[PATCH] nvmet: fix another memory leak

Sagi Grimberg sagi at grimberg.me
Sun Nov 13 22:45:02 PST 2022


When changing dhchap secrets we need to release the old
secrets as well.

kmemleak complaint:
--
unreferenced object 0xffff8c7f44ed8180 (size 64):
  comm "check", pid 7304, jiffies 4295686133 (age 72034.246s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    44 48 48 43 2d 31 3a 30 30 3a 4c 64 4c 4f 64 71  DHHC-1:00:LdLOdq
    79 56 69 67 77 48 55 32 6d 5a 59 4c 7a 35 59 38  yVigwHU2mZYLz5Y8
  backtrace:
    [<00000000b6fc5071>] kstrdup+0x2e/0x60
    [<00000000f0f4633f>] 0xffffffffc0e07ee6
    [<0000000053006c05>] 0xffffffffc0dff783
    [<00000000419ae922>] configfs_write_iter+0xb1/0x120
    [<000000008183c424>] vfs_write+0x2be/0x3c0
    [<000000009005a2a5>] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
    [<00000000cd495c89>] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
    [<00000000f2a84ac5>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Fixes: db1312dd9548 ("nvmet: implement basic In-Band Authentication")
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi at grimberg.me>
---
 drivers/nvme/target/auth.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/auth.c b/drivers/nvme/target/auth.c
index c4113b43dbfe..4dcddcf95279 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/auth.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/auth.c
@@ -45,9 +45,11 @@ int nvmet_auth_set_key(struct nvmet_host *host, const char *secret,
 	if (!dhchap_secret)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	if (set_ctrl) {
+		kfree(host->dhchap_ctrl_secret);
 		host->dhchap_ctrl_secret = strim(dhchap_secret);
 		host->dhchap_ctrl_key_hash = key_hash;
 	} else {
+		kfree(host->dhchap_secret);
 		host->dhchap_secret = strim(dhchap_secret);
 		host->dhchap_key_hash = key_hash;
 	}
-- 
2.34.1




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