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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gmuthukrishn@marvell.com>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, <anoobj@marvell.com>,
	Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>, Kai Ji <kai.ji@intel.com>,
	Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] crypto/openssl: fix memory leaks in asym ops
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 15:47:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231102154718.74272c0d@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83522013646bcd96b2420b3f69b74255981b3a20.1698913776.git.gmuthukrishn@marvell.com>

On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 14:08:31 +0530
Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gmuthukrishn@marvell.com> wrote:

> +	if (pub_key)
> +		BN_free(pub_key);
> +	if (pkey)
> +		EVP_PKEY_free(pkey);
>  

All these checks for null are unnecessary:

       EVP_PKEY_free() decrements the reference count of key and, if the reference count is zero,
       frees it up. If key is NULL, nothing is done.


Let me add those functions to cocci nullfree script as well.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-11-02 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-19 13:04 [PATCH] crypto/openssl: fix memory leaks in SM2 ops Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan
2023-10-23 13:33 ` Akhil Goyal
2023-11-02  8:38 ` [PATCH v2] crypto/openssl: fix memory leaks in asym ops Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan
2023-11-02 10:03   ` Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan
2023-11-02 22:47   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2023-11-03 15:19     ` [EXT] " Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan
2023-11-03 10:18   ` Power, Ciara
2023-11-03 11:38   ` Power, Ciara
2023-11-03 15:15   ` [PATCH v3] " Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan
2023-11-03 15:39     ` Power, Ciara
2023-11-09 20:18     ` Akhil Goyal
2023-11-13  5:41     ` [PATCH v4] " Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan
2023-11-13  6:23       ` Akhil Goyal

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