This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
CIFS: zero sensitive data when freeing
to the 3.18-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:
cifs-zero-sensitive-data-when-freeing.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 97f4b7276b829a8927ac903a119bef2f963ccc58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:59:39 +0100
Subject: CIFS: zero sensitive data when freeing
From: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@xxxxxxxx>
commit 97f4b7276b829a8927ac903a119bef2f963ccc58 upstream.
also replaces memset()+kfree() by kzfree().
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c | 3 +--
fs/cifs/connect.c | 6 +++---
fs/cifs/misc.c | 14 ++++----------
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
@@ -303,9 +303,8 @@ int calc_lanman_hash(const char *passwor
{
int i;
int rc;
- char password_with_pad[CIFS_ENCPWD_SIZE];
+ char password_with_pad[CIFS_ENCPWD_SIZE] = {0};
- memset(password_with_pad, 0, CIFS_ENCPWD_SIZE);
if (password)
strncpy(password_with_pad, password, CIFS_ENCPWD_SIZE);
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -1650,7 +1650,7 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(const char *mou
tmp_end++;
if (!(tmp_end < end && tmp_end[1] == delim)) {
/* No it is not. Set the password to NULL */
- kfree(vol->password);
+ kzfree(vol->password);
vol->password = NULL;
break;
}
@@ -1688,7 +1688,7 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(const char *mou
options = end;
}
- kfree(vol->password);
+ kzfree(vol->password);
/* Now build new password string */
temp_len = strlen(value);
vol->password = kzalloc(temp_len+1, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -4046,7 +4046,7 @@ cifs_construct_tcon(struct cifs_sb_info
reset_cifs_unix_caps(0, tcon, NULL, vol_info);
out:
kfree(vol_info->username);
- kfree(vol_info->password);
+ kzfree(vol_info->password);
kfree(vol_info);
return tcon;
--- a/fs/cifs/misc.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/misc.c
@@ -99,14 +99,11 @@ sesInfoFree(struct cifs_ses *buf_to_free
kfree(buf_to_free->serverOS);
kfree(buf_to_free->serverDomain);
kfree(buf_to_free->serverNOS);
- if (buf_to_free->password) {
- memset(buf_to_free->password, 0, strlen(buf_to_free->password));
- kfree(buf_to_free->password);
- }
+ kzfree(buf_to_free->password);
kfree(buf_to_free->user_name);
kfree(buf_to_free->domainName);
- kfree(buf_to_free->auth_key.response);
- kfree(buf_to_free);
+ kzfree(buf_to_free->auth_key.response);
+ kzfree(buf_to_free);
}
struct cifs_tcon *
@@ -136,10 +133,7 @@ tconInfoFree(struct cifs_tcon *buf_to_fr
}
atomic_dec(&tconInfoAllocCount);
kfree(buf_to_free->nativeFileSystem);
- if (buf_to_free->password) {
- memset(buf_to_free->password, 0, strlen(buf_to_free->password));
- kfree(buf_to_free->password);
- }
+ kzfree(buf_to_free->password);
kfree(buf_to_free);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aaptel@xxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/cifs-zero-sensitive-data-when-freeing.patch