crypto: qat - set to zero DH parameters before free

Set to zero the context buffers containing the DH key before they are
freed.
This is a defense in depth measure that avoids keys to be recovered from
memory in case the system is compromised between the free of the buffer
and when that area of memory (containing keys) gets overwritten.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c9839143ebbf ("crypto: qat - Add DH support")
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Adam Guerin <adam.guerin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Wojciech Ziemba <wojciech.ziemba@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_asym_algs.c b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_asym_algs.c
index b0b7844..5633f9d 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_asym_algs.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_asym_algs.c
@@ -420,14 +420,17 @@ static int qat_dh_set_params(struct qat_dh_ctx *ctx, struct dh *params)
 static void qat_dh_clear_ctx(struct device *dev, struct qat_dh_ctx *ctx)
 {
        if (ctx->g) {
+               memset(ctx->g, 0, ctx->p_size);
                dma_free_coherent(dev, ctx->p_size, ctx->g, ctx->dma_g);
                ctx->g = NULL;
        }
        if (ctx->xa) {
+               memset(ctx->xa, 0, ctx->p_size);
                dma_free_coherent(dev, ctx->p_size, ctx->xa, ctx->dma_xa);
                ctx->xa = NULL;
        }
        if (ctx->p) {
+               memset(ctx->p, 0, ctx->p_size);
                dma_free_coherent(dev, ctx->p_size, ctx->p, ctx->dma_p);
                ctx->p = NULL;
        }