This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data
to the 3.14-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:
random-add-and-use-memzero_explicit-for-clearing-data.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d4c5efdb97773f59a2b711754ca0953f24516739 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 23:16:35 -0400
Subject: random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data
From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit d4c5efdb97773f59a2b711754ca0953f24516739 upstream.
zatimend has reported that in his environment (3.16/gcc4.8.3/corei7)
memset() calls which clear out sensitive data in extract_{buf,entropy,
entropy_user}() in random driver are being optimized away by gcc.
Add a helper memzero_explicit() (similarly as explicit_bzero() variants)
that can be used in such cases where a variable with sensitive data is
being cleared out in the end. Other use cases might also be in crypto
code. [ I have put this into lib/string.c though, as it's always built-in
and doesn't need any dependencies then. ]
Fixes kernel bugzilla: 82041
Reported-by: zatimend@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 10 +++++-----
include/linux/string.h | 5 +++--
lib/string.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1063,8 +1063,8 @@ static void extract_buf(struct entropy_s
* pool while mixing, and hash one final time.
*/
sha_transform(hash.w, extract, workspace);
- memset(extract, 0, sizeof(extract));
- memset(workspace, 0, sizeof(workspace));
+ memzero_explicit(extract, sizeof(extract));
+ memzero_explicit(workspace, sizeof(workspace));
/*
* In case the hash function has some recognizable output
@@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@ static void extract_buf(struct entropy_s
hash.w[2] ^= rol32(hash.w[2], 16);
memcpy(out, &hash, EXTRACT_SIZE);
- memset(&hash, 0, sizeof(hash));
+ memzero_explicit(&hash, sizeof(hash));
}
static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct entropy_store *r, void *buf,
@@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct en
}
/* Wipe data just returned from memory */
- memset(tmp, 0, sizeof(tmp));
+ memzero_explicit(tmp, sizeof(tmp));
return ret;
}
@@ -1162,7 +1162,7 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy_user(stru
}
/* Wipe data just returned from memory */
- memset(tmp, 0, sizeof(tmp));
+ memzero_explicit(tmp, sizeof(tmp));
return ret;
}
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ int bprintf(u32 *bin_buf, size_t size, c
#endif
extern ssize_t memory_read_from_buffer(void *to, size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
- const void *from, size_t available);
+ const void *from, size_t available);
/**
* strstarts - does @str start with @prefix?
@@ -141,7 +141,8 @@ static inline bool strstarts(const char
return strncmp(str, prefix, strlen(prefix)) == 0;
}
-extern size_t memweight(const void *ptr, size_t bytes);
+size_t memweight(const void *ptr, size_t bytes);
+void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count);
/**
* kbasename - return the last part of a pathname.
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -586,6 +586,22 @@ void *memset(void *s, int c, size_t coun
EXPORT_SYMBOL(memset);
#endif
+/**
+ * memzero_explicit - Fill a region of memory (e.g. sensitive
+ * keying data) with 0s.
+ * @s: Pointer to the start of the area.
+ * @count: The size of the area.
+ *
+ * memzero_explicit() doesn't need an arch-specific version as
+ * it just invokes the one of memset() implicitly.
+ */
+void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count)
+{
+ memset(s, 0, count);
+ OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(s);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(memzero_explicit);
+
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCPY
/**
* memcpy - Copy one area of memory to another
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/random-add-and-use-memzero_explicit-for-clearing-data.patch
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