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crypto: asym_tpm: correct zero out potential secrets

Message ID X8ns4AfwjKudpyfe@kroah.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series crypto: asym_tpm: correct zero out potential secrets | expand

Commit Message

Greg KH Dec. 4, 2020, 8:01 a.m. UTC 
The function derive_pub_key() should be calling memzero_explicit()
instead of memset() in case the complier decides to optimize away the
call to memset() because it "knows" no one is going to touch the memory
anymore.

Reported-by: Ilil Blum Shem-Tov <ilil.blum.shem-tov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Ilil Blum Shem-Tov <ilil.blum.shem-tov@intel.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 crypto/asymmetric_keys/asym_tpm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/asym_tpm.c b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/asym_tpm.c
index 378b18b9bc34..84a5d6af9609 100644
--- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/asym_tpm.c
+++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/asym_tpm.c
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@  static uint32_t derive_pub_key(const void *pub_key, uint32_t len, uint8_t *buf)
 	memcpy(cur, e, sizeof(e));
 	cur += sizeof(e);
 	/* Zero parameters to satisfy set_pub_key ABI. */
-	memset(cur, 0, SETKEY_PARAMS_SIZE);
+	memzero_explicit(cur, SETKEY_PARAMS_SIZE);
 
 	return cur - buf;
 }