From 453431a54934d917153c65211b2dabf45562ca88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Waiman Long Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 23:18:13 -0700 Subject: mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() As said by Linus: A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use. Otherwise it's actively misleading. In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the caller wants. In "kzfree()", the z is actively detrimental, because maybe in the future we really _might_ want to use that "memfill(0xdeadbeef)" or something. The "zero" part of the interface isn't even _relevant_. The main reason that kzfree() exists is to clear sensitive information that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory objects. Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() to follow the example of the recently added kvfree_sensitive() and make the intention of the API more explicit. In addition, memzero_explicit() is used to clear the memory to make sure that it won't get optimized away by the compiler. The renaming is done by using the command sequence: git grep -w --name-only kzfree |\ xargs sed -i 's/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/' followed by some editing of the kfree_sensitive() kerneldoc and adding a kzfree backward compatibility macro in slab.h. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c needs linux/slab.h] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c some more] Suggested-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: David Howells Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen Cc: James Morris Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-3-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/crypto/caam/caampkc.c | 28 ++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/crypto/caam/caampkc.c') diff --git a/drivers/crypto/caam/caampkc.c b/drivers/crypto/caam/caampkc.c index 2e44d685618f..dd5f101e43f8 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/caam/caampkc.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/caam/caampkc.c @@ -854,14 +854,14 @@ static int caam_rsa_dec(struct akcipher_request *req) static void caam_rsa_free_key(struct caam_rsa_key *key) { - kzfree(key->d); - kzfree(key->p); - kzfree(key->q); - kzfree(key->dp); - kzfree(key->dq); - kzfree(key->qinv); - kzfree(key->tmp1); - kzfree(key->tmp2); + kfree_sensitive(key->d); + kfree_sensitive(key->p); + kfree_sensitive(key->q); + kfree_sensitive(key->dp); + kfree_sensitive(key->dq); + kfree_sensitive(key->qinv); + kfree_sensitive(key->tmp1); + kfree_sensitive(key->tmp2); kfree(key->e); kfree(key->n); memset(key, 0, sizeof(*key)); @@ -1018,17 +1018,17 @@ static void caam_rsa_set_priv_key_form(struct caam_rsa_ctx *ctx, return; free_dq: - kzfree(rsa_key->dq); + kfree_sensitive(rsa_key->dq); free_dp: - kzfree(rsa_key->dp); + kfree_sensitive(rsa_key->dp); free_tmp2: - kzfree(rsa_key->tmp2); + kfree_sensitive(rsa_key->tmp2); free_tmp1: - kzfree(rsa_key->tmp1); + kfree_sensitive(rsa_key->tmp1); free_q: - kzfree(rsa_key->q); + kfree_sensitive(rsa_key->q); free_p: - kzfree(rsa_key->p); + kfree_sensitive(rsa_key->p); } static int caam_rsa_set_priv_key(struct crypto_akcipher *tfm, const void *key, -- cgit v1.2.3