[PATCH] Use memzero_explicit to clear local buffers

Giel van Schijndel me at mortis.eu
Sun Jan 4 11:05:40 MST 2015


When leaving a function use memzero_explicit instead of memset(0) to
clear locally allocated/owned buffers. memset(0) may be optimized away.

All of the affected buffers contain sensitive data, key material or
derivatives of one of those two.
---
 arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c | 2 +-
 drivers/usb/wusbcore/security.c     | 2 +-
 fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c                | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c b/arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c
index 8fad72f..b616e63 100644
--- a/arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c
+++ b/arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static int sha256_ssse3_final(struct shash_desc *desc, u8 *out)
 		dst[i] = cpu_to_be32(sctx->state[i]);
 
 	/* Wipe context */
-	memset(sctx, 0, sizeof(*sctx));
+	memzero_explicit(sctx, sizeof(*sctx));
 
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/usb/wusbcore/security.c b/drivers/usb/wusbcore/security.c
index b66faaf..a25f4fe 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/wusbcore/security.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/wusbcore/security.c
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ error_wusbhc_set_ptk:
 error_hs3:
 error_hs2:
 error_hs1:
-	memset(hs, 0, 3*sizeof(hs[0]));
+	memzero_explicit(hs, 3*sizeof(hs[0]));
 	memzero_explicit(&keydvt_out, sizeof(keydvt_out));
 	memzero_explicit(&keydvt_in, sizeof(keydvt_in));
 	memzero_explicit(&ccm_n, sizeof(ccm_n));
diff --git a/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c b/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c
index 6c15663..a4232ec 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ E_md4hash(const unsigned char *passwd, unsigned char *p16,
 	}
 
 	rc = mdfour(p16, (unsigned char *) wpwd, len * sizeof(__le16));
-	memset(wpwd, 0, 129 * sizeof(__le16));
+	memzero_explicit(wpwd, sizeof(wpwd));
 
 	return rc;
 }
-- 
2.1.4



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