On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 02:19:27PM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote:
> Set to zero the context buffers containing the DH key before they are
> freed.
> This is a defense in depth measure that avoids keys to be recovered from
> memory in case the system is compromised between the free of the buffer
> and when that area of memory (containing keys) gets overwritten.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: c9839143ebbf ("crypto: qat - Add DH support")
> Signed-off-by: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Adam Guerin <adam.guerin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Wojciech Ziemba <wojciech.ziemba@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_asym_algs.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
Why isn't this part of the other series for this "driver"?
thanks,
greg k-h
