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| author | Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> | 2014-08-26 23:16:35 -0400 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-11-14 08:59:49 -0800 |
| commit | b0bb7fc84dc32cdf506d14caef0144f6a83afd10 (patch) | |
| tree | 84419fa5ff4ae94793848693631edff963b0b3d9 /drivers/char | |
| parent | c8f712403473828d7a72882025114ef42491b1ae (diff) | |
| download | lwn-b0bb7fc84dc32cdf506d14caef0144f6a83afd10.tar.gz lwn-b0bb7fc84dc32cdf506d14caef0144f6a83afd10.zip | |
random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data
commit d4c5efdb97773f59a2b711754ca0953f24516739 upstream.
zatimend has reported that in his environment (3.16/gcc4.8.3/corei7)
memset() calls which clear out sensitive data in extract_{buf,entropy,
entropy_user}() in random driver are being optimized away by gcc.
Add a helper memzero_explicit() (similarly as explicit_bzero() variants)
that can be used in such cases where a variable with sensitive data is
being cleared out in the end. Other use cases might also be in crypto
code. [ I have put this into lib/string.c though, as it's always built-in
and doesn't need any dependencies then. ]
Fixes kernel bugzilla: 82041
Reported-by: zatimend@hotmail.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/random.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c index 429b75bb60e8..8a64dbeae7b1 100644 --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -1063,8 +1063,8 @@ static void extract_buf(struct entropy_store *r, __u8 *out) * pool while mixing, and hash one final time. */ sha_transform(hash.w, extract, workspace); - memset(extract, 0, sizeof(extract)); - memset(workspace, 0, sizeof(workspace)); + memzero_explicit(extract, sizeof(extract)); + memzero_explicit(workspace, sizeof(workspace)); /* * In case the hash function has some recognizable output @@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@ static void extract_buf(struct entropy_store *r, __u8 *out) hash.w[2] ^= rol32(hash.w[2], 16); memcpy(out, &hash, EXTRACT_SIZE); - memset(&hash, 0, sizeof(hash)); + memzero_explicit(&hash, sizeof(hash)); } static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct entropy_store *r, void *buf, @@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct entropy_store *r, void *buf, } /* Wipe data just returned from memory */ - memset(tmp, 0, sizeof(tmp)); + memzero_explicit(tmp, sizeof(tmp)); return ret; } @@ -1162,7 +1162,7 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy_user(struct entropy_store *r, void __user *buf, } /* Wipe data just returned from memory */ - memset(tmp, 0, sizeof(tmp)); + memzero_explicit(tmp, sizeof(tmp)); return ret; } |