random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data
authorDaniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Wed, 27 Aug 2014 03:16:35 +0000 (23:16 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:37:29 +0000 (11:37 -0400)
commitd4c5efdb97773f59a2b711754ca0953f24516739
tree83ededeb92d6d529e8081b97b2f9cdf491094b78
parent7d1311b93e58ed55f3a31cc8f94c4b8fe988a2b9
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: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
drivers/char/random.c
include/linux/string.h
lib/string.c