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| author | Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> | 2013-02-07 00:55:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Xavier Boudet <x-boudet@ti.com> | 2013-05-25 06:32:37 +0200 |
| commit | 614b2c264d9744a5422b1f52ef167715270d81af (patch) | |
| tree | a0b279a66f3a613e54ce49fcc6f24b3725b53dc9 /net | |
| parent | 950a31a7b12402e834bcb85a508c455051e658e3 (diff) | |
net: sctp: sctp_auth_key_put: use kzfree instead of kfree
[ Upstream commit 586c31f3bf04c290dc0a0de7fc91d20aa9a5ee53 ]
For sensitive data like keying material, it is common practice to zero
out keys before returning the memory back to the allocator. Thus, use
kzfree instead of kfree.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/sctp/auth.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/sctp/auth.c b/net/sctp/auth.c index bf812048cf6f..333926d4d356 100644 --- a/net/sctp/auth.c +++ b/net/sctp/auth.c @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ void sctp_auth_key_put(struct sctp_auth_bytes *key) return; if (atomic_dec_and_test(&key->refcnt)) { - kfree(key); + kzfree(key); SCTP_DBG_OBJCNT_DEC(keys); } } |