On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 03:06:32AM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote: > Am Montag, 10. November 2014, 22:05:18 schrieb Herbert Xu: > > Hi Herbert, > > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 11:33:52PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > > while working on the AF_ALG interface, I saw no active zeroizations of > > > memory that may hold sensitive data that is maintained outside the kernel > > > crypto API cipher handles. I think the following memory segments fall > > > under that > > > category: > > Are you talking about temporary data that we generate as part of > > the processing? If so they should be zeroed by the entity that > > generates them. > > I currently see that the IV buffer (owned by skcipher) and the message digest > buffer (owned by hash) are not memset(0) before freeing them. I agree that > both are not really sensitive data. But wouldn't it be prudent to memset(0) > them nonetheless in the skcipher_sock_destruct and hash_sock_destruct > functions, respectively?
Yes please submit your patches. > Apologies, my bad as I did not check get_user_pages_fast well enough. I see > now that we operate on the pages in user space directly without > copy_from_user > that would imply a kernel-internal copy. Please disregard my comment. OK. Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
