Re: [PATCH V2] crypto: Mark intermediary memory as clean
From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sun Aug 17 2025 - 07:41:19 EST
On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 06:59:15PM +0800, Edward Adam Davis wrote:
> This is not a leak! The stack memroy is hashed and fed into the
> entropy pool. We can't recover the original kernel memory from it.
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+e8bcd7ee3db6cb5cb875@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e8bcd7ee3db6cb5cb875
> Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@xxxxxx>
> ---
> V1 -> V2: mark it as unpoison
>
> crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c b/crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c
> index 1266eb790708..4020a6e41b0e 100644
> --- a/crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c
> +++ b/crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c
> @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ int jent_hash_time(void *hash_state, __u64 time, u8 *addtl,
> pr_warn_ratelimited("Unexpected digest size\n");
> return -EINVAL;
> }
> + kmsan_unpoison_memory(intermediary, SHA3_256_DIGEST_SIZE);
Please change SHA3_256_DIGEST_SIZE to sizeof(intermediary).
Thanks,
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