WTF: patch "[PATCH] crypto: qat - fix memory leak in RSA" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 5.18-stable tree?

The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 5.18-stable tree.

I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.

I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to <[email protected]> and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 80a52e1ee7757b742f96bfb0d58f0c14eb6583d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Giovanni Cabiddu <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 14:34:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] crypto: qat - fix memory leak in RSA

When an RSA key represented in form 2 (as defined in PKCS #1 V2.1) is used, some components of the private key persist even after the TFM is released.
Replace the explicit calls to free the buffers in qat_rsa_exit_tfm() with a call to qat_rsa_clear_ctx() which frees all buffers referenced in the TFM context.

index ff7249c093c9..2bc02c75398e 100644
@@ -1257,18 +1257,8 @@ static void qat_rsa_exit_tfm(struct crypto_akcipher *tfm)
 	struct qat_rsa_ctx *ctx = akcipher_tfm_ctx(tfm);
 	struct device *dev = &GET_DEV(ctx->inst->accel_dev);
 
-	if (ctx->n)
-		dma_free_coherent(dev, ctx->key_sz, ctx->n, ctx->dma_n);
-	if (ctx->e)
-		dma_free_coherent(dev, ctx->key_sz, ctx->e, ctx->dma_e);
-	if (ctx->d) {
-		memset(ctx->d, '\0', ctx->key_sz);
-		dma_free_coherent(dev, ctx->key_sz, ctx->d, ctx->dma_d);
-	}
+	qat_rsa_clear_ctx(dev, ctx);
 	qat_crypto_put_instance(ctx->inst);
-	ctx->n = NULL;
-	ctx->e = NULL;
-	ctx->d = NULL;
 }
 
 static struct akcipher_alg rsa = {