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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2015-04-21 10:46:49 +0800
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2015-04-22 09:30:21 +0800
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crypto: rng - Zero seed in crypto_rng_reset
If we allocate a seed on behalf ot the user in crypto_rng_reset, we must ensure that it is zeroed afterwards or the RNG may be compromised. Reported-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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diff --git a/crypto/rng.c b/crypto/rng.c
index 055e276427b1..13155058b193 100644
--- a/crypto/rng.c
+++ b/crypto/rng.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ int crypto_rng_reset(struct crypto_rng *tfm, const u8 *seed, unsigned int slen)
err = crypto_rng_alg(tfm)->seed(tfm, seed, slen);
- kfree(buf);
+ kzfree(buf);
return err;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_rng_reset);