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SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND] cifs: use memzero_explicit to clear stack buffer
Looks fine to me - will merge into cifs-2.6.git

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Giel van Schijndel <me@mortis.eu> wrote:
> When leaving a function use memzero_explicit instead of memset(0) to
> clear stack allocated buffers. memset(0) may be optimized away.
>
> This particular buffer is highly likely to contain sensitive data which
> we shouldn't leak (it's named 'passwd' after all).
>
> Signed-off-by: Giel van Schijndel <me@mortis.eu>
> Reported-at: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0299/
> Reported-by: Andrey Karpov
> Reported-by: Svyatoslav Razmyslov
> ---
> fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c b/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c
> index 6c15663..a4232ec 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c
> @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ E_md4hash(const unsigned char *passwd, unsigned char *p16,
> }
>
> rc = mdfour(p16, (unsigned char *) wpwd, len * sizeof(__le16));
> - memset(wpwd, 0, 129 * sizeof(__le16));
> + memzero_explicit(wpwd, sizeof(wpwd));
>
> return rc;
> }
> --
> 2.1.4
>



--
Thanks,

Steve


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