From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> commit 7b5164fb1279bf0251371848e40bae646b59b3a8 upstream. This buffer may contain entropic data that shouldn't stick around longer than needed, so zero out the temporary buffer at the end of write_pool(). Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/random.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -1336,19 +1336,24 @@ static __poll_t random_poll(struct file static int write_pool(const char __user *ubuf, size_t count) { size_t len; + int ret = 0; u8 block[BLAKE2S_BLOCK_SIZE]; while (count) { len = min(count, sizeof(block)); - if (copy_from_user(block, ubuf, len)) - return -EFAULT; + if (copy_from_user(block, ubuf, len)) { + ret = -EFAULT; + goto out; + } count -= len; ubuf += len; mix_pool_bytes(block, len); cond_resched(); } - return 0; +out: + memzero_explicit(block, sizeof(block)); + return ret; } static ssize_t random_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,