Commit 23e4099b authored by Hailey Mothershead's avatar Hailey Mothershead Committed by Herbert Xu

crypto: aead,cipher - zeroize key buffer after use

I.G 9.7.B for FIPS 140-3 specifies that variables temporarily holding
cryptographic information should be zeroized once they are no longer
needed. Accomplish this by using kfree_sensitive for buffers that
previously held the private key.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHailey Mothershead <hailmo@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
parent 571e557c
......@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ static int setkey_unaligned(struct crypto_aead *tfm, const u8 *key,
alignbuffer = (u8 *)ALIGN((unsigned long)buffer, alignmask + 1);
memcpy(alignbuffer, key, keylen);
ret = crypto_aead_alg(tfm)->setkey(tfm, alignbuffer, keylen);
memset(alignbuffer, 0, keylen);
kfree(buffer);
kfree_sensitive(buffer);
return ret;
}
......
......@@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ static int setkey_unaligned(struct crypto_cipher *tfm, const u8 *key,
alignbuffer = (u8 *)ALIGN((unsigned long)buffer, alignmask + 1);
memcpy(alignbuffer, key, keylen);
ret = cia->cia_setkey(crypto_cipher_tfm(tfm), alignbuffer, keylen);
memset(alignbuffer, 0, keylen);
kfree(buffer);
kfree_sensitive(buffer);
return ret;
}
......
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