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crypto: zstd - fix double-free in per-CPU stream cleanup
authorGiovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com>
Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:26:09 +0000 (16:26 +0000)
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Mon, 1 Dec 2025 10:05:07 +0000 (18:05 +0800)
commit48bc9da3c97c15f1ea24934bcb3b736acd30163d
tree289291cb75301c8761e9c0ba90ddd65fa8d0f9c6
parentebbdf6466b30e3b37f3b360826efd21f0633fb9e
crypto: zstd - fix double-free in per-CPU stream cleanup

The crypto/zstd module has a double-free bug that occurs when multiple
tfms are allocated and freed.

The issue happens because zstd_streams (per-CPU contexts) are freed in
zstd_exit() during every tfm destruction, rather than being managed at
the module level.  When multiple tfms exist, each tfm exit attempts to
free the same shared per-CPU streams, resulting in a double-free.

This leads to a stack trace similar to:

  BUG: Bad page state in process kworker/u16:1  pfn:106fd93
  page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x106fd93
  flags: 0x17ffffc0000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
  page_type: 0xffffffff()
  raw: 0017ffffc0000000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
  raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
  page dumped because: nonzero entire_mapcount
  Modules linked in: ...
  CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 2506 Comm: kworker/u16:1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G    B
  Hardware name: ...
  Workqueue: btrfs-delalloc btrfs_work_helper
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80
   bad_page+0x71/0xd0
   free_unref_page_prepare+0x24e/0x490
   free_unref_page+0x60/0x170
   crypto_acomp_free_streams+0x5d/0xc0
   crypto_acomp_exit_tfm+0x23/0x50
   crypto_destroy_tfm+0x60/0xc0
   ...

Change the lifecycle management of zstd_streams to free the streams only
once during module cleanup.

Fixes: f5ad93ffb541 ("crypto: zstd - convert to acomp")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Suman Kumar Chakraborty <suman.kumar.chakraborty@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
crypto/zstd.c