From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758682AbbAGDEU (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2015 22:04:20 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46250 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756859AbbAGBv4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2015 20:51:56 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Milan Broz , Mike Snitzer Subject: [PATCH 3.18 23/84] dm crypt: use memzero_explicit for on-stack buffer Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 17:49:26 -0800 Message-Id: <20150107014029.761795721@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.2.1 In-Reply-To: <20150107014029.012974975@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20150107014029.012974975@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.63-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Milan Broz commit 1a71d6ffe18c0d0f03fc8531949cc8ed41d702ee upstream. Use memzero_explicit to cleanup sensitive data allocated on stack to prevent the compiler from optimizing and removing memset() calls. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c @@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ static int crypt_iv_tcw_whitening(struct for (i = 0; i < ((1 << SECTOR_SHIFT) / 8); i++) crypto_xor(data + i * 8, buf, 8); out: - memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf)); + memzero_explicit(buf, sizeof(buf)); return r; }