From: Thorsten Blum <blum@kernel.org>
To: "Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Michal Simek" <michal.simek@amd.com>,
"Harsh Jain" <h.jain@amd.com>,
"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
"Takashi Sakamoto" <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>,
"Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub)"
<u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <blum@kernel.org>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] crypto: xilinx - clear AES key buffer before freeing it
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 21:16:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260908191607.405177-2-blum@kernel.org> (raw)
In xilinx_aes_aead_exit(), the AES key buffer is freed without being
cleared, which allows key material to remain in memory. Use
kfree_sensitive() to clear the buffer before freeing it.
Fixes: c315cb0005be ("crypto: xilinx - Change coherent DMA to streaming DMA API")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <blum@kernel.org>
---
drivers/crypto/xilinx/zynqmp-aes-gcm.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/xilinx/zynqmp-aes-gcm.c b/drivers/crypto/xilinx/zynqmp-aes-gcm.c
index d54c268dfe34..ebee37dddb1f 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/xilinx/zynqmp-aes-gcm.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/xilinx/zynqmp-aes-gcm.c
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ static void xilinx_aes_aead_exit(struct crypto_aead *aead)
struct xilinx_aead_tfm_ctx *tfm_ctx = crypto_tfm_ctx(tfm);
dma_unmap_single(tfm_ctx->dev, tfm_ctx->key_dma_addr, AES_KEYSIZE_256, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
- kfree(tfm_ctx->key);
+ kfree_sensitive(tfm_ctx->key);
if (tfm_ctx->fbk_cipher) {
crypto_free_aead(tfm_ctx->fbk_cipher);
tfm_ctx->fbk_cipher = NULL;
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