3.16.52-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <ja...@zx2c4.com> commit 910801809b2e40a4baedd080ef5d80b4a180e70e upstream. Error paths forgot to zero out sensitive material, so this patch changes some kfrees into a kzfrees. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <ja...@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebigge...@gmail.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Kirill Marinushkin <k.marinush...@gmail.com> Cc: secur...@kernel.org [bwh: Backported to 3.16: there's only one kfree() to change] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> --- security/keys/big_key.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/security/keys/big_key.c +++ b/security/keys/big_key.c @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ void big_key_destroy(struct key *key) path->mnt = NULL; path->dentry = NULL; } else { - kfree(key->payload.data); + kzfree(key->payload.data); key->payload.data = NULL; } }