[PATCH RESEND] cifs: use memzero_explicit to clear stack buffer

Giel van Schijndel me at mortis.eu
Tue Jan 6 14:37:00 MST 2015


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

This particular buffer is highly likely to contain sensitive data which
we shouldn't leak (it's named 'passwd' after all).

Signed-off-by: Giel van Schijndel <me at mortis.eu>
Reported-at: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0299/
Reported-by: Andrey Karpov
Reported-by: Svyatoslav Razmyslov
---
 fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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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