When leaving a function use memzero_explicit instead of memset(0) to clear stack allocated buffers. memset(0) may be optimized away. This particular buffer is highly likely to contain sensitive data which we shouldn't leak (it's named 'passwd' after all). Signed-off-by: Giel van Schijndel <me@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-at: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0299/ Reported-by: Andrey Karpov Reported-by: Svyatoslav Razmyslov --- fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c b/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c index 6c15663..a4232ec 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c +++ b/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ E_md4hash(const unsigned char *passwd, unsigned char *p16, } rc = mdfour(p16, (unsigned char *) wpwd, len * sizeof(__le16)); - memset(wpwd, 0, 129 * sizeof(__le16)); + memzero_explicit(wpwd, sizeof(wpwd)); return rc; } -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
