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* [PATCH v1] arch: s390: Use kfree_sensitive instead of kfree
@ 2023-07-17  9:45 Wang Ming
  2023-07-17 10:47 ` Harald Freudenberger
  2023-07-18  7:38 ` Heiko Carstens
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Wang Ming @ 2023-07-17  9:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Herbert Xu, David S. Miller, Heiko Carstens, Vasily Gorbik,
	Alexander Gordeev, Christian Borntraeger, Sven Schnelle,
	linux-crypto, linux-s390, linux-kernel
  Cc: opensource.kernel, Wang Ming

key might contain private part of the key, so better use
kfree_sensitive to free it.

Signed-off-by: Wang Ming <machel@vivo.com>
---
 arch/s390/crypto/paes_s390.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/crypto/paes_s390.c b/arch/s390/crypto/paes_s390.c
index d29a9d908797..38349150c96e 100644
--- a/arch/s390/crypto/paes_s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/crypto/paes_s390.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static inline void _free_kb_keybuf(struct key_blob *kb)
 {
 	if (kb->key && kb->key != kb->keybuf
 	    && kb->keylen > sizeof(kb->keybuf)) {
-		kfree(kb->key);
+		kfree_sensitive(kb->key);
 		kb->key = NULL;
 	}
 }
-- 
2.25.1


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