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net: ipv4: Use kfree_sensitive instead of kfree
authorWang Ming <machel@vivo.com>
Mon, 17 Jul 2023 09:59:19 +0000 (17:59 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 27 Jul 2023 06:47:01 +0000 (08:47 +0200)
[ Upstream commit daa751444fd9d4184270b1479d8af49aaf1a1ee6 ]

key might contain private part of the key, so better use
kfree_sensitive to free it.

Fixes: 38320c70d282 ("[IPSEC]: Use crypto_aead and authenc in ESP")
Signed-off-by: Wang Ming <machel@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
net/ipv4/esp4.c

index d747166bb291ccf95ae8ac8d6863177cda6649e3..386e9875e5b80467ab7938ce147a2dbda5b9831d 100644 (file)
@@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ static int esp_init_authenc(struct xfrm_state *x)
        err = crypto_aead_setkey(aead, key, keylen);
 
 free_key:
-       kfree(key);
+       kfree_sensitive(key);
 
 error:
        return err;