* [PATCH v2] security: keys: Use kvfree_sensitive in a few places
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@ 2020-09-11 16:06 ` Alex Dewar
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From: Alex Dewar @ 2020-09-11 16:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Alex Dewar, David Howells, Jarkko Sakkinen, James Morris,
Serge E. Hallyn, keyrings, linux-security-module, linux-kernel
In big_key.c, there are a few places where memzero_explicit + kvfree is
used. Replace these with a single call to kvfree_sensitive, to make the
code more readable.
Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@gmail.com>
---
v2 - Update commit message as per James Bottomley's suggestion
security/keys/big_key.c | 9 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/keys/big_key.c b/security/keys/big_key.c
index 691347dea3c1..d17e5f09eeb8 100644
--- a/security/keys/big_key.c
+++ b/security/keys/big_key.c
@@ -121,8 +121,7 @@ int big_key_preparse(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep)
*path = file->f_path;
path_get(path);
fput(file);
- memzero_explicit(buf, enclen);
- kvfree(buf);
+ kvfree_sensitive(buf, enclen);
} else {
/* Just store the data in a buffer */
void *data = kmalloc(datalen, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -140,8 +139,7 @@ int big_key_preparse(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep)
err_enckey:
kfree_sensitive(enckey);
error:
- memzero_explicit(buf, enclen);
- kvfree(buf);
+ kvfree_sensitive(buf, enclen);
return ret;
}
@@ -273,8 +271,7 @@ long big_key_read(const struct key *key, char *buffer, size_t buflen)
err_fput:
fput(file);
error:
- memzero_explicit(buf, enclen);
- kvfree(buf);
+ kvfree_sensitive(buf, enclen);
} else {
ret = datalen;
memcpy(buffer, key->payload.data[big_key_data], datalen);
--
2.28.0
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