Hi,

same patch

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/27/168

Thanks,
Denis

On 9/11/20 2:44 PM, Alex Dewar wrote:
> In big_key.c, there are a few places where memzero_explicit + kvfree is
> used. It is better to use kvfree_sensitive instead, which is more
> readable and also prevents the compiler from eliding the call to
> memzero_explicit. Fix this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <[email protected]>
> ---
>  security/keys/big_key.c | 9 +++------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/keys/big_key.c b/security/keys/big_key.c
> index 691347dea3c1..d17e5f09eeb8 100644
> --- a/security/keys/big_key.c
> +++ b/security/keys/big_key.c
> @@ -121,8 +121,7 @@ int big_key_preparse(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep)
>               *path = file->f_path;
>               path_get(path);
>               fput(file);
> -             memzero_explicit(buf, enclen);
> -             kvfree(buf);
> +             kvfree_sensitive(buf, enclen);
>       } else {
>               /* Just store the data in a buffer */
>               void *data = kmalloc(datalen, GFP_KERNEL);
> @@ -140,8 +139,7 @@ int big_key_preparse(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep)
>  err_enckey:
>       kfree_sensitive(enckey);
>  error:
> -     memzero_explicit(buf, enclen);
> -     kvfree(buf);
> +     kvfree_sensitive(buf, enclen);
>       return ret;
>  }
>  
> @@ -273,8 +271,7 @@ long big_key_read(const struct key *key, char *buffer, 
> size_t buflen)
>  err_fput:
>               fput(file);
>  error:
> -             memzero_explicit(buf, enclen);
> -             kvfree(buf);
> +             kvfree_sensitive(buf, enclen);
>       } else {
>               ret = datalen;
>               memcpy(buffer, key->payload.data[big_key_data], datalen);
> 

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