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From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] crypto: keywrap - memzero the correct memory
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 13:00:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7459893.TVu3jshKD9@positron.chronox.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160130143828.GC3462@mwanda>

Am Samstag, 30. Januar 2016, 17:38:28 schrieb Dan Carpenter:

Hi Dan,

> We're clearing the wrong memory.  The memory corruption is likely
> harmless because we weren't going to use that stack memory again but not
> zeroing is a potential information leak.
> 
> Fixes: e28facde3c39 ('crypto: keywrap - add key wrapping block chaining
> mode') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Acked-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>

Thanks
Stephan

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-31 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-30 14:38 [patch] crypto: keywrap - memzero the correct memory Dan Carpenter
2016-01-31 13:00 ` Stephan Mueller [this message]
2016-02-01 14:35 ` Herbert Xu

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