linux/security
Waiman Long d4eaa28378 mm: add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects
For kvmalloc'ed data object that contains sensitive information like
cryptographic keys, we need to make sure that the buffer is always cleared
before freeing it.  Using memset() alone for buffer clearing may not
provide certainty as the compiler may compile it away.  To be sure, the
special memzero_explicit() has to be used.

This patch introduces a new kvfree_sensitive() for freeing those sensitive
data objects allocated by kvmalloc().  The relevant places where
kvfree_sensitive() can be used are modified to use it.

Fixes: 4f0882491a ("KEYS: Avoid false positive ENOMEM error on key read")
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200407200318.11711-1-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-04 19:06:22 -07:00
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apparmor Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-05-24 13:47:27 -07:00
bpf bpf: lsm: Initialize the BPF LSM hooks 2020-03-30 01:34:00 +02:00
integrity evm: Fix a small race in init_desc() 2020-05-14 19:55:54 -04:00
keys mm: add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects 2020-06-04 19:06:22 -07:00
loadpin proc/sysctl: add shared variables for range check 2019-07-18 17:08:07 -07:00
lockdown Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2020-06-02 17:36:24 -07:00
safesetid security/safesetid: Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace_pointer() 2019-10-30 08:45:57 -07:00
selinux Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2020-06-03 16:27:18 -07:00
smack Merge branch 'merge.nfs-fs_parse.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-02-08 13:26:41 -08:00
tomoyo One patch for suppressing coccicheck's warning. 2020-06-02 17:12:07 -07:00
yama sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
commoncap.c exec: Always set cap_ambient in cap_bprm_set_creds 2020-05-26 13:11:00 -05:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: Cleanup cgroup eBPF device filter code 2020-04-13 14:41:54 -04:00
inode.c Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
Kconfig bpf: lsm: Initialize the BPF LSM hooks 2020-03-30 01:34:00 +02:00
Kconfig.hardening meminit fix 2019-07-28 12:33:15 -07:00
lsm_audit.c security,lockdown,selinux: implement SELinux lockdown 2019-12-09 17:53:58 -05:00
Makefile device_cgroup: Cleanup cgroup eBPF device filter code 2020-04-13 14:41:54 -04:00
min_addr.c sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
security.c security: Fix hook iteration for secid_to_secctx 2020-05-20 20:12:07 -07:00