> Fixed title
> Cryptodev: fix heap use after free
> > > The PMD destroy function was calling the release function, which frees
> > > cryptodev->data, and then tries to free cryptodev->data->dev_private,
> > > which causes the heap use after free issue.
> > >
> > > A temporary pointer is set before the free of cryptodev->data,
> > > which can then be used afterwards to free dev_private.
> > > The free cannot be moved to before the release function is called,
> > > as dev_private is used in the QAT close function while being released.
> I believe all PMDs use dev_private for close.
> Hence replaces QAT with PMD
> > >
> > > Fixes: 9e6edea41805 ("cryptodev: add APIs to assist PMD initialisation")
> > > Cc: declan.dohe...@intel.com
> > > Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
> > >
> > > Reported-by: ZhihongX Peng <zhihongx.p...@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.po...@intel.com>
> > >
> > > ---
> > > The same issue is found in crypto/octeontx,
> > > which may need to be addressed by maintainers.
> > > Cc: Anoob Joseph <ano...@marvell.com>
> > > ---
> > > lib/cryptodev/rte_cryptodev_pmd.c | 3 ++-
> > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/lib/cryptodev/rte_cryptodev_pmd.c
> > > b/lib/cryptodev/rte_cryptodev_pmd.c
> > > index 0912004127..900acd7ba4 100644
> > > --- a/lib/cryptodev/rte_cryptodev_pmd.c
> > > +++ b/lib/cryptodev/rte_cryptodev_pmd.c
> > > @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int
> > > rte_cryptodev_pmd_destroy(struct rte_cryptodev *cryptodev)
> > > {
> > > int retval;
> > > + void *tmp_dev_private = cryptodev->data->dev_private;
> >
> > Can we rename this pointer as dev_private?
>
> Renamed this while merging, as we have RC3 deadline today.
> >
> > >
> > > CDEV_LOG_INFO("Closing crypto device %s", cryptodev->device-
> > > >name);
> > >
> > > @@ -149,7 +150,7 @@ rte_cryptodev_pmd_destroy(struct rte_cryptodev
> > > *cryptodev)
> > > return retval;
> > >
> > > if (rte_eal_process_type() == RTE_PROC_PRIMARY)
> > > - rte_free(cryptodev->data->dev_private);
> > > + rte_free(tmp_dev_private);
> > >
> > >
> > > cryptodev->device = NULL;
Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gak...@marvell.com>
Applied to dpdk-next-crypto
