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| author | Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> | 2020-06-25 20:29:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> | 2020-06-29 20:08:03 -0400 |
| commit | 97d501d149ea2a605ffe4a21a03e607f015b2ccc (patch) | |
| tree | d8f43d7630718ce1c7a9151e5984ca6d2a2cfea4 /mm | |
| parent | 8807fbfcd94cf79ee9a6f99bef31ec577a5a97d5 (diff) | |
mm/slab: use memzero_explicit() in kzfree()
commit 8982ae527fbef170ef298650c15d55a9ccd33973 upstream.
The kzfree() function is normally used to clear some sensitive
information, like encryption keys, in the buffer before freeing it back to
the pool. Memset() is currently used for buffer clearing. However
unlikely, there is still a non-zero probability that the compiler may
choose to optimize away the memory clearing especially if LTO is being
used in the future.
To make sure that this optimization will never happen,
memzero_explicit(), which is introduced in v3.18, is now used in
kzfree() to future-proof it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-2-longman@redhat.com
Fixes: 3ef0e5ba4673 ("slab: introduce kzfree()")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slab_common.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c index 01e7246de8df..5d8c809a3ff7 100644 --- a/mm/slab_common.c +++ b/mm/slab_common.c @@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ void kzfree(const void *p) if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(mem))) return; ks = ksize(mem); - memset(mem, 0, ks); + memzero_explicit(mem, ks); kfree(mem); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree); |