On 7/17/23 4:26 AM, Minjie Du wrote:
> session might contain private part of the password, so better use
> kfree_sensitive() to free it.
> In iscsi_session_free() use kfree_sensitive() to free session->password.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Minjie Du <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c
> index 0fda8905e..2f273229c 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c
> @@ -3132,7 +3132,7 @@ void iscsi_session_free(struct iscsi_cls_session 
> *cls_session)
>       struct module *owner = cls_session->transport->owner;
>  
>       iscsi_pool_free(&session->cmdpool);
> -     kfree(session->password);
> +     kfree_sensitive(session->password);
>       kfree(session->password_in);

You then also want kfree_sensitive for password_in.

I would also use it for the usernames then too.

>       kfree(session->username);
>       kfree(session->username_in);

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