[PATCH 6.12 015/244] nvme-fabrics: use kfree_sensitive() for DHCHAP secrets

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-31T16:46:40Z

From: Daniel Hodges <hodgesd@meta.com>

[ Upstream commit 0a1fc2f301529ac75aec0ce80d5ab9d9e4dc4b16 ]

The DHCHAP secrets (dhchap_secret and dhchap_ctrl_secret) contain
authentication key material for NVMe-oF. Use kfree_sensitive() instead
of kfree() in nvmf_free_options() to ensure secrets are zeroed before
the memory is freed, preventing recovery from freed pages.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hodges <hodgesd@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c b/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c
index 2e47c56b2d4b2..fdcd655ee7434 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c
@@ -1262,8 +1262,8 @@ void nvmf_free_options(struct nvmf_ctrl_options *opts)
kfree(opts->subsysnqn);
kfree(opts->host_traddr);
kfree(opts->host_iface);
- kfree(opts->dhchap_secret);
- kfree(opts->dhchap_ctrl_secret);
+ kfree_sensitive(opts->dhchap_secret);
+ kfree_sensitive(opts->dhchap_ctrl_secret);
kfree(opts);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvmf_free_options);
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