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Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: keys: Use kvfree_sensitive in a few places
To:     efremov@linux.com
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
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From:   Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@gmail.com>
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Date:   Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:09:20 +0100
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On 2020-09-11 17:05, Denis Efremov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> same patch
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/27/168
>
> Thanks,
> Denis
Ah ok. Sorry for the noise!
>
> On 9/11/20 2:44 PM, Alex Dewar wrote:
>> In big_key.c, there are a few places where memzero_explicit + kvfree is
>> used. It is better to use kvfree_sensitive instead, which is more
>> readable and also prevents the compiler from eliding the call to
>> memzero_explicit. Fix this.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   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);
>>