Commit 1a71d6ff authored Nov 22, 2014 by Milan Broz Committed by Mike Snitzer Dec 02, 2014

dm crypt: use memzero_explicit for on-stack buffer



Use memzero_explicit to cleanup sensitive data allocated on stack
to prevent the compiler from optimizing and removing memset() calls.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

parent 02717d98

drivers/md/dm-crypt.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ static int crypt_iv_tcw_whitening(struct crypt_config *cc,
		for (i = 0; i < ((1 << SECTOR_SHIFT) / 8); i++)
		crypto_xor(data + i * 8, buf, 8);
		out:
		memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
		memzero_explicit(buf, sizeof(buf));
		return r;
		}

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