In sctp_setsockopt_auth_key, we create a temporary copy of the user passed shared auth key for the endpoint or association and after internal setup, we free it right away. Since it's sensitive data, we should zero out the key before returning the memory back to the allocator. Thus, use kzfree instead of kfree, just as we do in sctp_auth_key_put(). Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sctp/socket.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c index 9e65758..cedd9bf 100644 --- a/net/sctp/socket.c +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c @@ -3390,7 +3390,7 @@ static int sctp_setsockopt_auth_key(struct sock *sk, ret = sctp_auth_set_key(sctp_sk(sk)->ep, asoc, authkey); out: - kfree(authkey); + kzfree(authkey); return ret; } -- 1.7.11.7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
