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From: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, qat-linux@intel.com,
	Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Adam Guerin <adam.guerin@intel.com>,
	Wojciech Ziemba <wojciech.ziemba@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] crypto: qat - set to zero DH parameters before free
Date: Mon,  9 May 2022 14:19:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220509131927.55387-1-giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com> (raw)

Set to zero the context buffers containing the DH key before they are
freed.
This is a defense in depth measure that avoids keys to be recovered from
memory in case the system is compromised between the free of the buffer
and when that area of memory (containing keys) gets overwritten.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c9839143ebbf ("crypto: qat - Add DH support")
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Adam Guerin <adam.guerin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Wojciech Ziemba <wojciech.ziemba@intel.com>
---
 drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_asym_algs.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_asym_algs.c b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_asym_algs.c
index b0b78445418b..5633f9df3b6f 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_asym_algs.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_asym_algs.c
@@ -420,14 +420,17 @@ static int qat_dh_set_params(struct qat_dh_ctx *ctx, struct dh *params)
 static void qat_dh_clear_ctx(struct device *dev, struct qat_dh_ctx *ctx)
 {
 	if (ctx->g) {
+		memset(ctx->g, 0, ctx->p_size);
 		dma_free_coherent(dev, ctx->p_size, ctx->g, ctx->dma_g);
 		ctx->g = NULL;
 	}
 	if (ctx->xa) {
+		memset(ctx->xa, 0, ctx->p_size);
 		dma_free_coherent(dev, ctx->p_size, ctx->xa, ctx->dma_xa);
 		ctx->xa = NULL;
 	}
 	if (ctx->p) {
+		memset(ctx->p, 0, ctx->p_size);
 		dma_free_coherent(dev, ctx->p_size, ctx->p, ctx->dma_p);
 		ctx->p = NULL;
 	}
-- 
2.35.1


             reply	other threads:[~2022-05-09 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-09 13:19 Giovanni Cabiddu [this message]
2022-05-09 14:09 ` [PATCH] crypto: qat - set to zero DH parameters before free Greg KH
2022-05-09 14:54   ` Giovanni Cabiddu
2022-05-20  5:57 ` Herbert Xu

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