From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] net: sctp: sctp_auth_key_put: use kzfree instead of kfree Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:45:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20130207.234514.1920724559157438386.davem@davemloft.net> References: <8c764d916f21d56402a5b9a915ea31d927898da0.1360231701.git.dborkman@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: vyasevich@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org To: dborkman@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:56764 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752552Ab3BHEpP (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2013 23:45:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8c764d916f21d56402a5b9a915ea31d927898da0.1360231701.git.dborkman@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 11:55:37 +0100 > For sensitive data like keying material, it is common practice to zero > out keys before returning the memory back to the allocator. Thus, use > kzfree instead of kfree. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Applied and queued up for -stable.