From fbca1aee13974bade598c9d0906ef89d1bdc63c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Waiman Long Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 20:29:52 -0700 Subject: mm/slab: use memzero_explicit() in kzfree() commit 8982ae527fbef170ef298650c15d55a9ccd33973 upstream. The kzfree() function is normally used to clear some sensitive information, like encryption keys, in the buffer before freeing it back to the pool. Memset() is currently used for buffer clearing. However unlikely, there is still a non-zero probability that the compiler may choose to optimize away the memory clearing especially if LTO is being used in the future. To make sure that this optimization will never happen, memzero_explicit(), which is introduced in v3.18, is now used in kzfree() to future-proof it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-2-longman@redhat.com Fixes: 3ef0e5ba4673 ("slab: introduce kzfree()") Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: David Howells Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen Cc: James Morris Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/slab_common.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c index ade6c257d4b4..8c1ffbf7de45 100644 --- a/mm/slab_common.c +++ b/mm/slab_common.c @@ -1740,7 +1740,7 @@ void kzfree(const void *p) if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(mem))) return; ks = ksize(mem); - memset(mem, 0, ks); + memzero_explicit(mem, ks); kfree(mem); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree); -- cgit v1.2.3