From d4c5efdb97773f59a2b711754ca0953f24516739 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 23:16:35 -0400 Subject: random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data zatimend has reported that in his environment (3.16/gcc4.8.3/corei7) memset() calls which clear out sensitive data in extract_{buf,entropy, entropy_user}() in random driver are being optimized away by gcc. Add a helper memzero_explicit() (similarly as explicit_bzero() variants) that can be used in such cases where a variable with sensitive data is being cleared out in the end. Other use cases might also be in crypto code. [ I have put this into lib/string.c though, as it's always built-in and doesn't need any dependencies then. ] Fixes kernel bugzilla: 82041 Reported-by: zatimend@hotmail.co.uk Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/char/random.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/char') diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c index c18d41db83d8..8c86a95203a0 100644 --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ static void extract_buf(struct entropy_store *r, __u8 *out) __mix_pool_bytes(r, hash.w, sizeof(hash.w)); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&r->lock, flags); - memset(workspace, 0, sizeof(workspace)); + memzero_explicit(workspace, sizeof(workspace)); /* * In case the hash function has some recognizable output @@ -1118,7 +1118,7 @@ static void extract_buf(struct entropy_store *r, __u8 *out) hash.w[2] ^= rol32(hash.w[2], 16); memcpy(out, &hash, EXTRACT_SIZE); - memset(&hash, 0, sizeof(hash)); + memzero_explicit(&hash, sizeof(hash)); } /* @@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct entropy_store *r, void *buf, } /* Wipe data just returned from memory */ - memset(tmp, 0, sizeof(tmp)); + memzero_explicit(tmp, sizeof(tmp)); return ret; } @@ -1218,7 +1218,7 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy_user(struct entropy_store *r, void __user *buf, } /* Wipe data just returned from memory */ - memset(tmp, 0, sizeof(tmp)); + memzero_explicit(tmp, sizeof(tmp)); return ret; } -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b