From: Milan Broz Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 08:36:04 +0000 (+0100) Subject: dm crypt: use memzero_explicit for on-stack buffer X-Git-Tag: v3.19-rc1~177^2 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1a71d6ffe18c0d0f03fc8531949cc8ed41d702ee;p=linux.git dm crypt: use memzero_explicit for on-stack buffer Use memzero_explicit to cleanup sensitive data allocated on stack to prevent the compiler from optimizing and removing memset() calls. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c index cd15e0801228..ce11a90a33c3 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c @@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ static int crypt_iv_tcw_whitening(struct crypt_config *cc, for (i = 0; i < ((1 << SECTOR_SHIFT) / 8); i++) crypto_xor(data + i * 8, buf, 8); out: - memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf)); + memzero_explicit(buf, sizeof(buf)); return r; }