* [PATCH] crypto/krb5: use kfree_sensitive() for derived key buffers
@ 2026-08-03 19:26 Jan Sebastian Götte
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From: Jan Sebastian Götte @ 2026-08-03 19:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Herbert Xu, David S. Miller, David Howells
Cc: Jakub Kicinski, Michael Bommarito, Jeffrey Altman, linux-crypto,
linux-kernel, linux-hardening, Jan Sebastian Götte, stable
crypto_krb5_prepare_encryption() and crypto_krb5_prepare_checksum()
free the buffer holding the freshly derived keys with plain kfree(),
leaving the key material behind in the freed slab object.
Fixes: 3936f02bf2d3 ("crypto/krb5: Implement Kerberos crypto core")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Sebastian Götte <linux@jaseg.de>
---
crypto/krb5/krb5_api.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crypto/krb5/krb5_api.c b/crypto/krb5/krb5_api.c
index 03395b89cc61..b377f4f7558d 100644
--- a/crypto/krb5/krb5_api.c
+++ b/crypto/krb5/krb5_api.c
@@ -263,10 +263,10 @@ struct crypto_aead *crypto_krb5_prepare_encryption(const struct krb5_enctype *kr
goto err;
}
- kfree(keys.data);
+ kfree_sensitive(keys.data);
return ci;
err:
- kfree(keys.data);
+ kfree_sensitive(keys.data);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(crypto_krb5_prepare_encryption);
@@ -333,10 +333,10 @@ struct crypto_shash *crypto_krb5_prepare_checksum(const struct krb5_enctype *krb
goto err;
}
- kfree(keys.data);
+ kfree_sensitive(keys.data);
return ci;
err:
- kfree(keys.data);
+ kfree_sensitive(keys.data);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(crypto_krb5_prepare_checksum);
--
2.53.0
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