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authorHailey Mothershead <hailmo@amazon.com>2024-04-15 22:19:15 +0000
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2024-04-26 17:26:09 +0800
commit23e4099bdc3c8381992f9eb975c79196d6755210 (patch)
tree8dd796204b3ab2ac7637559cc89fbeb51b1bebe9
parent571e557cbaf748124aaf0f0ac26772d7380e78fc (diff)
downloadcryptodev-2.6-23e4099bdc3c8381992f9eb975c79196d6755210.tar.gz
crypto: aead,cipher - zeroize key buffer after use
I.G 9.7.B for FIPS 140-3 specifies that variables temporarily holding cryptographic information should be zeroized once they are no longer needed. Accomplish this by using kfree_sensitive for buffers that previously held the private key. Signed-off-by: Hailey Mothershead <hailmo@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
-rw-r--r--crypto/aead.c3
-rw-r--r--crypto/cipher.c3
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/aead.c b/crypto/aead.c
index 0e75a69189df4c..cade532413bfcf 100644
--- a/crypto/aead.c
+++ b/crypto/aead.c
@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ static int setkey_unaligned(struct crypto_aead *tfm, const u8 *key,
alignbuffer = (u8 *)ALIGN((unsigned long)buffer, alignmask + 1);
memcpy(alignbuffer, key, keylen);
ret = crypto_aead_alg(tfm)->setkey(tfm, alignbuffer, keylen);
- memset(alignbuffer, 0, keylen);
- kfree(buffer);
+ kfree_sensitive(buffer);
return ret;
}
diff --git a/crypto/cipher.c b/crypto/cipher.c
index 47c77a3e597833..40cae908788eca 100644
--- a/crypto/cipher.c
+++ b/crypto/cipher.c
@@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ static int setkey_unaligned(struct crypto_cipher *tfm, const u8 *key,
alignbuffer = (u8 *)ALIGN((unsigned long)buffer, alignmask + 1);
memcpy(alignbuffer, key, keylen);
ret = cia->cia_setkey(crypto_cipher_tfm(tfm), alignbuffer, keylen);
- memset(alignbuffer, 0, keylen);
- kfree(buffer);
+ kfree_sensitive(buffer);
return ret;
}