This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
CIFS: zero sensitive data when freeing
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: cifs-zero-sensitive-data-when-freeing.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 97f4b7276b829a8927ac903a119bef2f963ccc58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aurelien Aptel aaptel@suse.com Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:59:39 +0100 Subject: CIFS: zero sensitive data when freeing
From: Aurelien Aptel aaptel@suse.com
commit 97f4b7276b829a8927ac903a119bef2f963ccc58 upstream.
also replaces memset()+kfree() by kzfree().
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Aptel aaptel@suse.com Signed-off-by: Steve French smfrench@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky pshilov@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c | 3 +-- fs/cifs/connect.c | 6 +++--- fs/cifs/misc.c | 14 ++++---------- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c @@ -306,9 +306,8 @@ int calc_lanman_hash(const char *passwor { int i; int rc; - char password_with_pad[CIFS_ENCPWD_SIZE]; + char password_with_pad[CIFS_ENCPWD_SIZE] = {0};
- memset(password_with_pad, 0, CIFS_ENCPWD_SIZE); if (password) strncpy(password_with_pad, password, CIFS_ENCPWD_SIZE);
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -1695,7 +1695,7 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(const char *mou tmp_end++; if (!(tmp_end < end && tmp_end[1] == delim)) { /* No it is not. Set the password to NULL */ - kfree(vol->password); + kzfree(vol->password); vol->password = NULL; break; } @@ -1733,7 +1733,7 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(const char *mou options = end; }
- kfree(vol->password); + kzfree(vol->password); /* Now build new password string */ temp_len = strlen(value); vol->password = kzalloc(temp_len+1, GFP_KERNEL); @@ -4148,7 +4148,7 @@ cifs_construct_tcon(struct cifs_sb_info reset_cifs_unix_caps(0, tcon, NULL, vol_info); out: kfree(vol_info->username); - kfree(vol_info->password); + kzfree(vol_info->password); kfree(vol_info);
return tcon; --- a/fs/cifs/misc.c +++ b/fs/cifs/misc.c @@ -99,14 +99,11 @@ sesInfoFree(struct cifs_ses *buf_to_free kfree(buf_to_free->serverOS); kfree(buf_to_free->serverDomain); kfree(buf_to_free->serverNOS); - if (buf_to_free->password) { - memset(buf_to_free->password, 0, strlen(buf_to_free->password)); - kfree(buf_to_free->password); - } + kzfree(buf_to_free->password); kfree(buf_to_free->user_name); kfree(buf_to_free->domainName); - kfree(buf_to_free->auth_key.response); - kfree(buf_to_free); + kzfree(buf_to_free->auth_key.response); + kzfree(buf_to_free); }
struct cifs_tcon * @@ -137,10 +134,7 @@ tconInfoFree(struct cifs_tcon *buf_to_fr } atomic_dec(&tconInfoAllocCount); kfree(buf_to_free->nativeFileSystem); - if (buf_to_free->password) { - memset(buf_to_free->password, 0, strlen(buf_to_free->password)); - kfree(buf_to_free->password); - } + kzfree(buf_to_free->password); kfree(buf_to_free); }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aaptel@suse.com are
queue-4.4/cifs-zero-sensitive-data-when-freeing.patch