Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2016-02-01
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[patch] crypto: keywrap - memzero the correct memory

From: Dan Carpenter <hidden>
Date: 2016-01-30 14:40:46
Also in: kernel-janitors, lkml
Subsystem: crypto api, the rest · Maintainers: Herbert Xu, "David S. Miller", Linus Torvalds

We're clearing the wrong memory.  The memory corruption is likely
harmless because we weren't going to use that stack memory again but not
zeroing is a potential information leak.

Fixes: e28facde3c39 ('crypto: keywrap - add key wrapping block chaining mode')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
diff --git a/crypto/keywrap.c b/crypto/keywrap.c
index b1d106c..72014f9 100644
--- a/crypto/keywrap.c
+++ b/crypto/keywrap.c
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ static int crypto_kw_decrypt(struct blkcipher_desc *desc,
 			  SEMIBSIZE))
 		ret = -EBADMSG;
 
-	memzero_explicit(&block, sizeof(struct crypto_kw_block));
+	memzero_explicit(block, sizeof(struct crypto_kw_block));
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ static int crypto_kw_encrypt(struct blkcipher_desc *desc,
 	/* establish the IV for the caller to pick up */
 	memcpy(desc->info, block->A, SEMIBSIZE);
 
-	memzero_explicit(&block, sizeof(struct crypto_kw_block));
+	memzero_explicit(block, sizeof(struct crypto_kw_block));
 
 	return 0;
 }
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