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* [PATCH net v1] net: ipv4: Use kfree_sensitive instead of kfree
@ 2023-07-17  9:59 Wang Ming
  2023-07-17 18:29 ` Tariq Toukan
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Wang Ming @ 2023-07-17  9:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Steffen Klassert, Herbert Xu, David S. Miller, David Ahern,
	Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, netdev, linux-kernel
  Cc: opensource.kernel, Wang Ming

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

Fixes: 38320c70d282 ("[IPSEC]: Use crypto_aead and authenc in ESP")
Signed-off-by: Wang Ming <machel@vivo.com>
---
 net/ipv4/esp4.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/esp4.c b/net/ipv4/esp4.c
index ba06ed42e428..2be2d4922557 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/esp4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/esp4.c
@@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ static int esp_init_authenc(struct xfrm_state *x,
 	err = crypto_aead_setkey(aead, key, keylen);
 
 free_key:
-	kfree(key);
+	kfree_sensitive(key);
 
 error:
 	return err;
-- 
2.25.1


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