From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
"Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/crypto: poly1305: Use memzero_explicit() in poly1305_final()
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2026 14:25:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261006122546.GB3185@quark> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261006083432.16328-1-ebiggers@kernel.org>
On Tue, Oct 06, 2026 at 10:34:32AM +0200, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Use memzero_explicit() instead of a plain struct assignment to guarantee
> zeroization of the 'struct poly1305_desc_ctx'.
>
> Note that dead store elimination was only theoretically possible with
> link-time optimization here. But it's still worth fixing.
>
> Fixes: a1d93064094c ("crypto: poly1305 - expose init/update/final library interface")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
> Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/bug/linux-c3a6bd76-f6ab-4203-892a-cd06f7aa0c34
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
> ---
> lib/crypto/poly1305.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git/log/?h=libcrypto-next
- Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-06 12:25 UTC|newest]
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2026-10-06 8:34 Eric Biggers
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