linux/include
Waiman Long d4eaa28378 mm: add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects
For kvmalloc'ed data object that contains sensitive information like
cryptographic keys, we need to make sure that the buffer is always cleared
before freeing it.  Using memset() alone for buffer clearing may not
provide certainty as the compiler may compile it away.  To be sure, the
special memzero_explicit() has to be used.

This patch introduces a new kvfree_sensitive() for freeing those sensitive
data objects allocated by kvmalloc().  The relevant places where
kvfree_sensitive() can be used are modified to use it.

Fixes: 4f0882491a ("KEYS: Avoid false positive ENOMEM error on key read")
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: 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: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200407200318.11711-1-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-04 19:06:22 -07:00
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acpi Merge branches 'acpi-apei', 'acpi-pmic', 'acpi-video' and 'acpi-dptf' 2020-06-01 17:19:43 +02:00
asm-generic mm: remove __ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK and include/asm-generic/5level-fixup.h 2020-06-04 19:06:21 -07:00
clocksource
crypto crypto: lib/sha1 - fold linux/cryptohash.h into crypto/sha.h 2020-05-08 15:32:17 +10:00
drm drm: remove drm specific kmap_atomic code 2020-06-04 19:06:22 -07:00
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kvm KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Take cpu_if pointer directly instead of vcpu 2020-05-28 11:57:10 +01:00
linux mm: add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects 2020-06-04 19:06:22 -07:00
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media media updates for v5.8-rc1 2020-06-03 20:59:38 -07:00
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net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2020-06-03 16:27:18 -07:00
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rdma RDMA/core: Fix double destruction of uobject 2020-05-27 14:22:57 -03:00
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sound ALSA: rawmidi: Fix racy buffer resize under concurrent accesses 2020-05-07 22:29:14 +02:00
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trace Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-06-03 20:24:15 -07:00
uapi media updates for v5.8-rc1 2020-06-03 20:59:38 -07:00
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