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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ima/evm: Fix potential memory leak in ima_init_crypto()
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Hi Jianglei,

Thank you for the patch.

On Mon, 2022-07-04 at 08:59 +0800, Jianglei Nie wrote:
> ima_init_crypto() allocates a memory chunk for "ima_algo_array" with
> kcalloc(). When some errors occur, the function jumps to "out_array"
> and releases the "ima_algo_array[i].tfm". But "ima_algo_array" is
> not released, which will lead to a memory leak.

There's too much low level code details in the above paragraph. The
patch description should be written from a higher level perspective.
Refer to the original commit 6d94809af6b0 ("ima: Allocate and
initialize tfm for each PCR bank") for an example.
>
> We can release the ima_algo_array with kfree() when some errors occur
> to fix the memory leak.

Please re-word the above sentence in the imperative mode. Refer to
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for an example.

thanks,

Mimi
>
> Signed-off-by: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@163.com>

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