Commit f1dcb268 authored by Eric Biggers's avatar Eric Biggers Committed by David Howells

KEYS: sanitize key structs before freeing

While a 'struct key' itself normally does not contain sensitive
information, Documentation/security/keys.txt actually encourages this:

     "Having a payload is not required; and the payload can, in fact,
     just be a value stored in the struct key itself."

In case someone has taken this advice, or will take this advice in the
future, zero the key structure before freeing it.  We might as well, and
as a bonus this could make it a bit more difficult for an adversary to
determine which keys have recently been in use.

This is safe because the key_jar cache does not use a constructor.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
parent 6ee46e6b
......@@ -173,7 +173,6 @@ struct key {
#ifdef KEY_DEBUGGING
unsigned magic;
#define KEY_DEBUG_MAGIC 0x18273645u
#define KEY_DEBUG_MAGIC_X 0xf8e9dacbu
#endif
unsigned long flags; /* status flags (change with bitops) */
......
......@@ -158,9 +158,7 @@ static noinline void key_gc_unused_keys(struct list_head *keys)
kfree(key->description);
#ifdef KEY_DEBUGGING
key->magic = KEY_DEBUG_MAGIC_X;
#endif
memzero_explicit(key, sizeof(*key));
kmem_cache_free(key_jar, key);
}
}
......
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