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[v2] crypto: sun8i-ce: use kfree_sensitive() instead of

Message ID 1614676145-93512-1-git-send-email-yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [v2] crypto: sun8i-ce: use kfree_sensitive() instead of | expand

Commit Message

Yang Li March 2, 2021, 9:09 a.m. UTC 
Use kfree_sensitive() instead of using kfree() to  make the intention 
of the API more explicit.

fixed the following coccicheck:
./drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-prng.c:30:16-17: WARNING
opportunity for kfree_sensitive/kvfree_sensitive (memset at line 29)
./drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-prng.c:42:16-17: WARNING
opportunity for kfree_sensitive/kvfree_sensitive (memset at line 41)
./drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-prng.c:161:8-9: WARNING
opportunity for kfree_sensitive/kvfree_sensitive (memset at line 109)

Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com>
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Changes in v2
-Change the appropriate title

 drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-prng.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Herbert Xu March 2, 2021, 9:39 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 05:09:05PM +0800, Yang Li wrote:
> Use kfree_sensitive() instead of using kfree() to  make the intention 
> of the API more explicit.

Why did you keep the memzeros?

Thanks,
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diff --git a/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-prng.c b/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-prng.c
index cfde9ee..8259d52 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-prng.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-prng.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@  void sun8i_ce_prng_exit(struct crypto_tfm *tfm)
 	struct sun8i_ce_rng_tfm_ctx *ctx = crypto_tfm_ctx(tfm);
 
 	memzero_explicit(ctx->seed, ctx->slen);
-	kfree(ctx->seed);
+	kfree_sensitive(ctx->seed);
 	ctx->seed = NULL;
 	ctx->slen = 0;
 }
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@  int sun8i_ce_prng_seed(struct crypto_rng *tfm, const u8 *seed,
 
 	if (ctx->seed && ctx->slen != slen) {
 		memzero_explicit(ctx->seed, ctx->slen);
-		kfree(ctx->seed);
+		kfree_sensitive(ctx->seed);
 		ctx->slen = 0;
 		ctx->seed = NULL;
 	}
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@  int sun8i_ce_prng_generate(struct crypto_rng *tfm, const u8 *src,
 	}
 	memzero_explicit(d, todo);
 err_iv:
-	kfree(d);
+	kfree_sensitive(d);
 err_mem:
 	return err;
 }