[PATCH v1] platform: x86: Use kfree_sensitive instead of kfree

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key might contain private part of the key, so better use
kfree_sensitive to free it.

Signed-off-by: Wang Ming <machel@xxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c
index 52d1ce8dfe44..79346881cadb 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c
@@ -719,12 +719,12 @@ static ssize_t cert_to_password_store(struct kobject *kobj,
 	/* Format: 'Password,Signature' */
 	auth_str = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s,%s", passwd, setting->signature);
 	if (!auth_str) {
-		kfree(passwd);
+		kfree_sensitive(passwd);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 	ret = tlmi_simple_call(LENOVO_CERT_TO_PASSWORD_GUID, auth_str);
 	kfree(auth_str);
-	kfree(passwd);
+	kfree_sensitive(passwd);
 
 	return ret ?: count;
 }
-- 
2.25.1




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