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| author | Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> | 2013-02-07 00:55:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> | 2013-06-10 11:43:36 +0200 |
| commit | 9c51a966d1dc8a0dc359a4e2f94b31c7273b8f69 (patch) | |
| tree | 3a1bdfc40863af89521ec838fe17f8d87ff8fcff | |
| parent | 57201215910fc6fb5496ca85025dfa92d7518660 (diff) | |
net: sctp: sctp_auth_key_put: use kzfree instead of kfree
[ Upstream commit 586c31f3bf04c290dc0a0de7fc91d20aa9a5ee53 ]
For sensitive data like keying material, it is common practice to zero
out keys before returning the memory back to the allocator. Thus, use
kzfree instead of kfree.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
| -rw-r--r-- | net/sctp/auth.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/sctp/auth.c b/net/sctp/auth.c index 914c41978f52..7363b9f7de67 100644 --- a/net/sctp/auth.c +++ b/net/sctp/auth.c @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ void sctp_auth_key_put(struct sctp_auth_bytes *key) return; if (atomic_dec_and_test(&key->refcnt)) { - kfree(key); + kzfree(key); SCTP_DBG_OBJCNT_DEC(keys); } } |