From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] crypto: atmel-sha204a - clear RNG data from memory
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 17:04:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260708150359.545852-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)
In atmel_sha204a_rng_read(), use memzero_explicit() to clear the local
stack variable cmd before it goes out of scope, since cmd.data may still
hold the last 32 random bytes.
Since atmel_sha204a_rng_done() caches work_data in hwrng::priv, and its
response data is later used as RNG entropy, use kfree_sensitive() to
clear the cached data on transaction failure and device removal.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c b/drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c
index 5eb76245347d..21a84c29c9b7 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/scatterlist.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/sysfs.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include "atmel-i2c.h"
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ static void atmel_sha204a_rng_done(struct atmel_i2c_work_data *work_data,
dev_warn_ratelimited(&i2c_priv->client->dev,
"i2c transaction failed (%d)\n",
status);
- kfree(work_data);
+ kfree_sensitive(work_data);
atomic_dec(&i2c_priv->tfm_count);
return;
}
@@ -95,12 +96,15 @@ static int atmel_sha204a_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *data, size_t max,
ret = atmel_i2c_send_receive(i2c_priv->client, &cmd);
if (ret)
- return ret;
+ goto out;
max = min(RANDOM_RSP_SIZE - CMD_OVERHEAD_SIZE, max);
memcpy(data, &cmd.data[RSP_DATA_IDX], max);
+ ret = max;
- return max;
+out:
+ memzero_explicit(&cmd, sizeof(cmd));
+ return ret;
}
static int atmel_sha204a_otp_read(struct i2c_client *client, u16 addr, u8 *otp)
@@ -209,7 +213,7 @@ static void atmel_sha204a_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
devm_hwrng_unregister(&client->dev, &i2c_priv->hwrng);
atmel_i2c_flush_queue();
- kfree((void *)i2c_priv->hwrng.priv);
+ kfree_sensitive((void *)i2c_priv->hwrng.priv);
}
static const struct of_device_id atmel_sha204a_dt_ids[] = {
base-commit: e264401ce4776a288524e5b87593d4d864147115
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