[PATCH 4/4] s390/zcrypt: fix memleak at release

Johan Hovold johan at kernel.org
Thu Oct 10 13:13:33 UTC 2019


If a process is interrupted while accessing the crypto device and the
global ap_perms_mutex is contented, release() could return early and
fail to free related resources.

Fixes: 00fab2350e6b ("s390/zcrypt: multiple zcrypt device nodes support")
Cc: stable <stable at vger.kernel.org>     # 4.19
Cc: Harald Freudenberger <freude at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky at de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_api.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_api.c b/drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_api.c
index 45bdb47f84c1..9157e728a362 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_api.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_api.c
@@ -522,8 +522,7 @@ static int zcrypt_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 	if (filp->f_inode->i_cdev == &zcrypt_cdev) {
 		struct zcdn_device *zcdndev;
 
-		if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&ap_perms_mutex))
-			return -ERESTARTSYS;
+		mutex_lock(&ap_perms_mutex);
 		zcdndev = find_zcdndev_by_devt(filp->f_inode->i_rdev);
 		mutex_unlock(&ap_perms_mutex);
 		if (zcdndev) {
-- 
2.23.0



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