mm: add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects
authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Thu, 4 Jun 2020 23:48:21 +0000 (16:48 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:40:23 +0000 (16:40 +0200)
commit0b11ec4ae5573d49d2c6cf37796f82f409b9def8
tree54d54dcb979bc60b141d72a2a2fc3ef4b78b80ea
parent7c41d8c1bc6f90b8dd497000ccaf944fd85c5fac
mm: add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects

[ Upstream commit d4eaa2837851db2bfed572898bfc17f9a9f9151e ]

For kvmalloc'ed data object that contains sensitive information like
cryptographic keys, we need to make sure that the buffer is always cleared
before freeing it.  Using memset() alone for buffer clearing may not
provide certainty as the compiler may compile it away.  To be sure, the
special memzero_explicit() has to be used.

This patch introduces a new kvfree_sensitive() for freeing those sensitive
data objects allocated by kvmalloc().  The relevant places where
kvfree_sensitive() can be used are modified to use it.

Fixes: 4f0882491a14 ("KEYS: Avoid false positive ENOMEM error on key read")
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200407200318.11711-1-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
include/linux/mm.h
mm/util.c
security/keys/internal.h
security/keys/keyctl.c