From 7340fda068b62790d612ebbd3a331a2847895f19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 03:04:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] net: sctp: sctp_setsockopt_auth_key: use kzfree instead of kfree [ Upstream commit 6ba542a291a5e558603ac51cda9bded347ce7627 ] In sctp_setsockopt_auth_key, we create a temporary copy of the user passed shared auth key for the endpoint or association and after internal setup, we free it right away. Since it's sensitive data, we should zero out the key before returning the memory back to the allocator. Thus, use kzfree instead of kfree, just as we do in sctp_auth_key_put(). Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/sctp/socket.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c index 8ac6d0b18e68..6b766cd8b276 100644 --- a/net/sctp/socket.c +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c @@ -3304,7 +3304,7 @@ static int sctp_setsockopt_auth_key(struct sock *sk, ret = sctp_auth_set_key(sctp_sk(sk)->ep, asoc, authkey); out: - kfree(authkey); + kzfree(authkey); return ret; } -- 2.39.5