[PATCH 3/5] smb: client: Clear sensitive stack data in cifsencrypt.c
From: Thomas Huth
Date: Wed Aug 12 2026 - 09:06:05 EST
From: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
Make sure to not leak hash data via the stack, clear it
with memzero_explicit() before leaving the function.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/smb/client/cifsencrypt.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifsencrypt.c b/fs/smb/client/cifsencrypt.c
index 34804e9842a80..71a2a59123f57 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/cifsencrypt.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/cifsencrypt.c
@@ -249,12 +249,13 @@ static int calc_ntlmv2_hash(struct cifs_ses *ses, char *ntlmv2_hash,
E_md4hash(ses->password, nt_hash, nls_cp);
hmac_md5_init_usingrawkey(&hmac_ctx, nt_hash, CIFS_NTHASH_SIZE);
+ memzero_explicit(nt_hash, sizeof(nt_hash));
/* convert ses->user_name to unicode */
len = ses->user_name ? strlen(ses->user_name) : 0;
user = kmalloc(2 + (len * 2), GFP_KERNEL);
if (user == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ goto out_nomem;
if (len) {
len = cifs_strtoUTF16(user, ses->user_name, len, nls_cp);
@@ -272,7 +273,7 @@ static int calc_ntlmv2_hash(struct cifs_ses *ses, char *ntlmv2_hash,
domain = kmalloc(2 + (len * 2), GFP_KERNEL);
if (domain == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ goto out_nomem;
len = cifs_strtoUTF16((__le16 *)domain, ses->domainName, len,
nls_cp);
@@ -284,7 +285,7 @@ static int calc_ntlmv2_hash(struct cifs_ses *ses, char *ntlmv2_hash,
server = kmalloc(2 + (len * 2), GFP_KERNEL);
if (server == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ goto out_nomem;
len = cifs_strtoUTF16((__le16 *)server, ses->ip_addr, len, nls_cp);
hmac_md5_update(&hmac_ctx, (const u8 *)server, 2 * len);
@@ -293,6 +294,10 @@ static int calc_ntlmv2_hash(struct cifs_ses *ses, char *ntlmv2_hash,
hmac_md5_final(&hmac_ctx, ntlmv2_hash);
return 0;
+
+out_nomem:
+ memzero_explicit(&hmac_ctx, sizeof(hmac_ctx));
+ return -ENOMEM;
}
static void CalcNTLMv2_response(const struct cifs_ses *ses, char *ntlmv2_hash)
@@ -463,6 +468,7 @@ setup_ntlmv2_rsp(struct cifs_ses *ses, const struct nls_table *nls_cp)
rc = 0;
unlock:
cifs_server_unlock(ses->server);
+ memzero_explicit(ntlmv2_hash, sizeof(ntlmv2_hash));
setup_ntlmv2_rsp_ret:
kfree_sensitive(tiblob);
--
2.55.0