On 4/14/20 2:08 AM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>
>
> Le 14/04/2020 à 00:28, Waiman Long a écrit :
>> Since kfree_sensitive() will do an implicit memzero_explicit(), there
>> is no need to call memzero_explicit() before it. Eliminate those
>> memzero_explicit() and simplify the call sites. For better correctness,
>> the setting of keylen is also moved down after the key pointer check.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> .../allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-cipher.c | 19 +++++-------------
>> .../allwinner/sun8i-ss/sun8i-ss-cipher.c | 20 +++++--------------
>> drivers/crypto/amlogic/amlogic-gxl-cipher.c | 12 +++--------
>> drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel_hash.c | 3 +--
>> 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-cipher.c
>> b/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-cipher.c
>> index aa4e8fdc2b32..8358fac98719 100644
>> --- a/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-cipher.c
>> +++ b/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-cipher.c
>> @@ -366,10 +366,7 @@ void sun8i_ce_cipher_exit(struct crypto_tfm *tfm)
>> {
>> struct sun8i_cipher_tfm_ctx *op = crypto_tfm_ctx(tfm);
>> - if (op->key) {
>> - memzero_explicit(op->key, op->keylen);
>> - kfree(op->key);
>> - }
>> + kfree_sensitive(op->key);
>> crypto_free_sync_skcipher(op->fallback_tfm);
>> pm_runtime_put_sync_suspend(op->ce->dev);
>> }
>> @@ -391,14 +388,11 @@ int sun8i_ce_aes_setkey(struct crypto_skcipher
>> *tfm, const u8 *key,
>> dev_dbg(ce->dev, "ERROR: Invalid keylen %u\n", keylen);
>> return -EINVAL;
>> }
>> - if (op->key) {
>> - memzero_explicit(op->key, op->keylen);
>> - kfree(op->key);
>> - }
>> - op->keylen = keylen;
>> + kfree_sensitive(op->key);
>> op->key = kmemdup(key, keylen, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
>> if (!op->key)
>> return -ENOMEM;
>> + op->keylen = keylen;
>
> Does it matter at all to ensure op->keylen is not set when of->key is
> NULL ? I'm not sure.
>
> But if it does, then op->keylen should be set to 0 when freeing op->key.
My thinking is that if memory allocation fails, we just don't touch
anything and return an error code. I will not explicitly set keylen to 0
in this case unless it is specified in the API documentation.
Cheers,
Longman
