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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] scripts/coccinelle: catch freeing cryptographic structures via kfree

On 2014-11-17 18:30, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
>
>> Structures allocated by crypto_alloc_* must be freed using crypto_free_*.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov@samsung.com>
>> ---
>> scripts/coccinelle/free/crypto_free.cocci | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 scripts/coccinelle/free/crypto_free.cocci
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/free/crypto_free.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/free/crypto_free.cocci
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..0799b70
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/scripts/coccinelle/free/crypto_free.cocci
>> @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
>> +///
>> +/// Structures allocated by crypto_alloc_* must be freed using crypto_free_*.
>> +/// This finds freeing them by kfree.
>> +///
>> +// Confidence: Moderate
>> +// Copyright: (C) 2014 Konstantin Khlebnikov, GPLv2.
>> +// Comments: There are false positives in crypto/ where they are actually freed.
>> +// Keywords: crypto, kfree
>> +// Options: --no-includes --include-headers
>> +
>> +virtual org
>> +virtual report
>> +virtual context
>> +
>> +@r depends on context || org || report@
>> +expression x;
>> +identifier crypto_alloc =~ "^crypto_alloc_";
>> +@@
>> +
>> +(
>> + x = crypto_alloc(...)
>> +)
> You can drop the outer parentheses, in this case and in the kfree case.
>
> Are there many of these crypto_alloc_ functions? It would be nicer to
> avoid the regular expression. For one thing, you don't have much control
> over what it matches, and for another thing Coccinelle will not be able to
> optimize the selection of files. With the regular expression it will have
> to parse every file and analyze every function, which will be slow.

As I see here is eight .. ten candidates, maybe some of them are internal.
Ok, I'll resend patch without regex.

>
> julia
>
>> +
>> +@pb@
>> +expression r.x;
>> +position p;
>> +@@
>> +
>> +(
>> +* kfree@p(x)
>> +)
>> +
>> +@script:python depends on org@
>> +p << pb.p;
>> +@@
>> +
>> +msg="WARNING: invalid free of crypto_alloc_* allocated data"
>> +coccilib.org.print_todo(p[0], msg)
>> +
>> +@script:python depends on report@
>> +p << pb.p;
>> +@@
>> +
>> +msg="WARNING: invalid free of crypto_alloc_* allocated data"
>> +coccilib.report.print_report(p[0], msg)
>>
>>



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