[PATCH] cifs: Use kzfree() to zero out the password

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Tue Aug 27 10:59:17 UTC 2019


It's safer to zero out the password so that it can never be disclosed.

Fixes: 0c219f5799c7 ("cifs: set domainName when a domain-key is used in multiuser")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
---
 fs/cifs/connect.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index e6cc5c4b0f19..642bbb5bee3a 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -3101,7 +3101,7 @@ cifs_set_cifscreds(struct smb_vol *vol, struct cifs_ses *ses)
 			rc = -ENOMEM;
 			kfree(vol->username);
 			vol->username = NULL;
-			kfree(vol->password);
+			kzfree(vol->password);
 			vol->password = NULL;
 			goto out_key_put;
 		}
-- 
2.20.1




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