5.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Hailey Mothershead hailmo@amazon.com
[ Upstream commit 23e4099bdc3c8381992f9eb975c79196d6755210 ]
I.G 9.7.B for FIPS 140-3 specifies that variables temporarily holding cryptographic information should be zeroized once they are no longer needed. Accomplish this by using kfree_sensitive for buffers that previously held the private key.
Signed-off-by: Hailey Mothershead hailmo@amazon.com Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- crypto/aead.c | 3 +-- crypto/cipher.c | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crypto/aead.c b/crypto/aead.c index 16991095270d2..c4ece86c45bc4 100644 --- a/crypto/aead.c +++ b/crypto/aead.c @@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ static int setkey_unaligned(struct crypto_aead *tfm, const u8 *key, alignbuffer = (u8 *)ALIGN((unsigned long)buffer, alignmask + 1); memcpy(alignbuffer, key, keylen); ret = crypto_aead_alg(tfm)->setkey(tfm, alignbuffer, keylen); - memset(alignbuffer, 0, keylen); - kfree(buffer); + kfree_sensitive(buffer); return ret; }
diff --git a/crypto/cipher.c b/crypto/cipher.c index fd78150deb1c1..72c5606cc7f81 100644 --- a/crypto/cipher.c +++ b/crypto/cipher.c @@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ static int setkey_unaligned(struct crypto_cipher *tfm, const u8 *key, alignbuffer = (u8 *)ALIGN((unsigned long)buffer, alignmask + 1); memcpy(alignbuffer, key, keylen); ret = cia->cia_setkey(crypto_cipher_tfm(tfm), alignbuffer, keylen); - memset(alignbuffer, 0, keylen); - kfree(buffer); + kfree_sensitive(buffer); return ret;
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