This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    dm crypt: use memzero_explicit for on-stack buffer

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     dm-crypt-use-memzero_explicit-for-on-stack-buffer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 1a71d6ffe18c0d0f03fc8531949cc8ed41d702ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Milan Broz <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 09:36:04 +0100
Subject: dm crypt: use memzero_explicit for on-stack buffer

From: Milan Broz <[email protected]>

commit 1a71d6ffe18c0d0f03fc8531949cc8ed41d702ee upstream.

Use memzero_explicit to cleanup sensitive data allocated on stack
to prevent the compiler from optimizing and removing memset() calls.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/md/dm-crypt.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ static int crypt_iv_tcw_whitening(struct
        for (i = 0; i < ((1 << SECTOR_SHIFT) / 8); i++)
                crypto_xor(data + i * 8, buf, 8);
 out:
-       memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
+       memzero_explicit(buf, sizeof(buf));
        return r;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.14/dm-crypt-use-memzero_explicit-for-on-stack-buffer.patch
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