From 8f8623de49e036c4af246a7cfd9abdc1bb95cdea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 03:04:34 +0000 Subject: 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: Ben Hutchings --- 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 fa8333bd6c30..5e0d86e1e214 100644 --- a/net/sctp/socket.c +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c @@ -3375,7 +3375,7 @@ 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; } -- cgit v1.2.3