If we allocate a seed on behalf ot the user in crypto_rng_reset, we must ensure that it is zeroed afterwards or the RNG may be compromised. Reported-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- crypto/rng.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/crypto/rng.c b/crypto/rng.c index 055e276..1315505 100644 --- a/crypto/rng.c +++ b/crypto/rng.c @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ int crypto_rng_reset(struct crypto_rng *tfm, const u8 *seed, unsigned int slen) err = crypto_rng_alg(tfm)->seed(tfm, seed, slen); - kfree(buf); + kzfree(buf); return err; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_rng_reset); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
