Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: think-lmi: Free system certificate signatures

"Mark Pearson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.platform-driver-x86,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Mon, Aug 10, 2026, at 4:41 PM, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> Multi-certificate support also allows the system authentication object
> to store ->signature and ->save_signature, which leak when the driver is
> removed. Free the signatures to avoid leaking memory.
>
> Fixes: 5dcb5ef12590 ("platform/x86: think-lmi: Multi-certificate support")
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/think-lmi.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/think-lmi.c 
> b/drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/think-lmi.c
> index e215e86e3db7..e3e683bf3469 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/think-lmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/think-lmi.c
> @@ -1456,6 +1456,10 @@ static void tlmi_release_attr(void)
>  	/* Free up any saved signatures */
>  	kfree(tlmi_priv.pwd_admin->signature);
>  	kfree(tlmi_priv.pwd_admin->save_signature);
> +	if (tlmi_priv.pwd_system) {
> +		kfree(tlmi_priv.pwd_system->signature);
> +		kfree(tlmi_priv.pwd_system->save_signature);
> +	}
> 
>  	/* Authentication structures */
>  	list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, n, &tlmi_priv.authentication_kset->list, entry)

Ouch, this one is an embarassing miss for me. Thanks for fixing.
Reviewed-by: Mark Pearson <[email protected]>

Mark
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