From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: "Larry H." <research@subreption.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pageexec@freemail.hu,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use kzfree in crypto API context initialization and key/iv handling
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 10:38:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A22965A.6030201@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090531025720.GC9033@oblivion.subreption.com>
Larry H. wrote:
> [PATCH] Use kzfree in crypto API context initialization and key/iv handling
>
> This patch replaces the kfree() calls within the crypto API (algorithms,
> key setup and handling, etc) with kzfree(), to enforce sanitization of
> the allocated memory.
>
> This prevents such information from persisting on memory and eventually
> leak to other kernel users or during coldboot attacks.
>
> This patch replaces kfree() for context (algorithm meta-data) structures
> too. Those are initialized or released once, and remain in use during the
> lifetime of the cipher/algorithm instance, therefore no performance impact
> exists for those specific changes.
>
> This patch doesn't affect fastpaths.
>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Highsmith <research@subreption.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-31 2:57 [PATCH] Use kzfree in crypto API context initialization and key/iv handling Larry H.
2009-05-31 6:02 ` David Miller
2009-05-31 14:38 ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-01 4:46 ` David Miller
2009-06-01 4:48 ` Herbert Xu
2009-06-01 7:58 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-01 12:33 ` Herbert Xu
2009-05-31 14:38 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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