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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Theodore Y . Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] fscrypt: zeroize fscrypt_info before freeing
Date: Wed,  9 Oct 2019 16:44:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191009234442.225847-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> (raw)

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

memset the struct fscrypt_info to zero before freeing.  This isn't
really needed currently, since there's no secret key directly in the
fscrypt_info.  But there's a decent chance that someone will add such a
field in the future, e.g. in order to use an API that takes a raw key
such as siphash().  So it's good to do this as a hardening measure.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---
 fs/crypto/keysetup.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/crypto/keysetup.c b/fs/crypto/keysetup.c
index df3e1c8653884..0ba33e010312f 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/keysetup.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/keysetup.c
@@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ static void put_crypt_info(struct fscrypt_info *ci)
 			key_invalidate(key);
 		key_put(key);
 	}
+	memzero_explicit(ci, sizeof(*ci));
 	kmem_cache_free(fscrypt_info_cachep, ci);
 }
 
-- 
2.23.0.581.g78d2f28ef7-goog

             reply	other threads:[~2019-10-09 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-09 23:44 Eric Biggers [this message]
2019-10-21 20:28 ` [PATCH] fscrypt: zeroize fscrypt_info before freeing Eric Biggers
2019-10-21 20:28   ` Eric Biggers

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