Re: [PATCH v5] crypto: rsa - return raw integers for the ASN.1 parser

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Am Dienstag, 14. Juni 2016, 21:38:06 schrieb Herbert Xu:

Hi Herbert,

> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:20:06PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > memzero_explicit(raw_key) should be added here in success and failure code
> > paths.
> 
> The raw_key is just a bunch of pointers, do we really need to
> zero it?

You are correct.

But then I need to refine my question: isn't rsa_parse_priv_key allocating the 
MPIs (at least rsa_parse_priv_key seems to hint to that considering the error 
code path)? So, shouldn't the MPIs be freed here with free_mpis()? This would 
apply to parse_pub_key too.

Ciao
Stephan
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