From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:46845 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750891AbdJBJow (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2017 05:44:52 -0400 Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] security/keys: properly zero out sensitive key material in" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree To: Jason@zx2c4.com, dhowells@redhat.com, ebiggers3@gmail.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, k.marinushkin@gmail.com Cc: From: Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 11:45:02 +0200 Message-ID: <1506937502110122@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to . thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >>From 910801809b2e40a4baedd080ef5d80b4a180e70e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:58:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] security/keys: properly zero out sensitive key material in big_key Error paths forgot to zero out sensitive material, so this patch changes some kfrees into a kzfrees. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Signed-off-by: David Howells Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers Cc: Herbert Xu Cc: Kirill Marinushkin Cc: security@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org diff --git a/security/keys/big_key.c b/security/keys/big_key.c index 6acb00f6f22c..507d6fb86a4f 100644 --- a/security/keys/big_key.c +++ b/security/keys/big_key.c @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ int big_key_preparse(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep) *path = file->f_path; path_get(path); fput(file); - kfree(data); + kzfree(data); } else { /* Just store the data in a buffer */ void *data = kmalloc(datalen, GFP_KERNEL); @@ -211,9 +211,9 @@ int big_key_preparse(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep) err_fput: fput(file); err_enckey: - kfree(enckey); + kzfree(enckey); error: - kfree(data); + kzfree(data); return ret; } @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ void big_key_free_preparse(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep) path_put(path); } - kfree(prep->payload.data[big_key_data]); + kzfree(prep->payload.data[big_key_data]); } /* @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ void big_key_destroy(struct key *key) path->mnt = NULL; path->dentry = NULL; } - kfree(key->payload.data[big_key_data]); + kzfree(key->payload.data[big_key_data]); key->payload.data[big_key_data] = NULL; } @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ long big_key_read(const struct key *key, char __user *buffer, size_t buflen) err_fput: fput(file); error: - kfree(data); + kzfree(data); } else { ret = datalen; if (copy_to_user(buffer, key->payload.data[big_key_data],