Patch "security/keys: properly zero out sensitive key material in big_key" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    security/keys: properly zero out sensitive key material in big_key

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     security-keys-properly-zero-out-sensitive-key-material-in-big_key.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 910801809b2e40a4baedd080ef5d80b4a180e70e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:58:38 +0200
Subject: security/keys: properly zero out sensitive key material in big_key

From: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 910801809b2e40a4baedd080ef5d80b4a180e70e upstream.

Error paths forgot to zero out sensitive material, so this patch changes
some kfrees into a kzfrees.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill Marinushkin <k.marinushkin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: security@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 security/keys/big_key.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/security/keys/big_key.c
+++ b/security/keys/big_key.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ int big_key_preparse(struct key_preparse
 		*path = file->f_path;
 		path_get(path);
 		fput(file);
-		kfree(data);
+		kzfree(data);
 	} else {
 		/* Just store the data in a buffer */
 		void *data = kmalloc(datalen, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -210,9 +210,9 @@ int big_key_preparse(struct key_preparse
 err_fput:
 	fput(file);
 err_enckey:
-	kfree(enckey);
+	kzfree(enckey);
 error:
-	kfree(data);
+	kzfree(data);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ void big_key_free_preparse(struct key_pr
 
 		path_put(path);
 	}
-	kfree(prep->payload.data[big_key_data]);
+	kzfree(prep->payload.data[big_key_data]);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ void big_key_destroy(struct key *key)
 		path->mnt = NULL;
 		path->dentry = NULL;
 	}
-	kfree(key->payload.data[big_key_data]);
+	kzfree(key->payload.data[big_key_data]);
 	key->payload.data[big_key_data] = NULL;
 }
 
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ long big_key_read(const struct key *key,
 err_fput:
 		fput(file);
 error:
-		kfree(data);
+		kzfree(data);
 	} else {
 		ret = datalen;
 		if (copy_to_user(buffer, key->payload.data[big_key_data],


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Jason@xxxxxxxxx are

queue-4.9/security-keys-rewrite-all-of-big_key-crypto.patch
queue-4.9/security-keys-properly-zero-out-sensitive-key-material-in-big_key.patch