From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755705AbaLWIeK (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2014 03:34:10 -0500 Received: from mail.eperm.de ([89.247.134.16]:51005 "EHLO mail.eperm.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754873AbaLWIeH (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2014 03:34:07 -0500 X-AuthUser: sm@eperm.de From: Stephan Mueller To: "'Herbert Xu'" Cc: "'LKML'" , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] crypto: AF_ALG: zeroize key data Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:34:03 +0100 Message-ID: <4092638.L73RGXcGnC@tachyon.chronox.de> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/3.17.7-300.fc21.x86_64; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org alg_setkey should zeroize the sensitive data after use. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller --- crypto/af_alg.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/crypto/af_alg.c b/crypto/af_alg.c index a8ff3c4..76d739d 100644 --- a/crypto/af_alg.c +++ b/crypto/af_alg.c @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static int alg_setkey(struct sock *sk, char __user *ukey, err = type->setkey(ask->private, key, keylen); out: - sock_kfree_s(sk, key, keylen); + sock_kzfree_s(sk, key, keylen); return err; } -- 2.1.0