[PATCH 4.9 20/64] security/keys: properly zero out sensitive key material in big_key

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Oct 03 2017 - 08:24:35 EST


4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 910801809b2e40a4baedd080ef5d80b4a180e70e upstream.

Error paths forgot to zero out sensitive material, so this patch changes
some kfrees into a kzfrees.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill Marinushkin <k.marinushkin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: security@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
security/keys/big_key.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/security/keys/big_key.c
+++ b/security/keys/big_key.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ int big_key_preparse(struct key_preparse
*path = file->f_path;
path_get(path);
fput(file);
- kfree(data);
+ kzfree(data);
} else {
/* Just store the data in a buffer */
void *data = kmalloc(datalen, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -210,9 +210,9 @@ int big_key_preparse(struct key_preparse
err_fput:
fput(file);
err_enckey:
- kfree(enckey);
+ kzfree(enckey);
error:
- kfree(data);
+ kzfree(data);
return ret;
}

@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ void big_key_free_preparse(struct key_pr

path_put(path);
}
- kfree(prep->payload.data[big_key_data]);
+ kzfree(prep->payload.data[big_key_data]);
}

/*
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ void big_key_destroy(struct key *key)
path->mnt = NULL;
path->dentry = NULL;
}
- kfree(key->payload.data[big_key_data]);
+ kzfree(key->payload.data[big_key_data]);
key->payload.data[big_key_data] = NULL;
}

@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ long big_key_read(const struct key *key,
err_fput:
fput(file);
error:
- kfree(data);
+ kzfree(data);
} else {
ret = datalen;
if (copy_to_user(buffer, key->payload.data[big_key_data],