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authorDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>2014-08-26 23:16:35 -0400
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2014-12-14 16:23:49 +0000
commit2bdb21fe06c81e977e2bcf1ad3063ba96db9563f (patch)
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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> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - extract_buf() needs to use this for the 'extract' array as well - Adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/random.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index c244f0e..edf45ae 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -954,8 +954,8 @@ 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
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ static void extract_buf(struct entropy_store *r, __u8 *out)
}
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,
@@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ 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;
}
@@ -1047,7 +1047,7 @@ 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;
}