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author | Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> | 2013-02-07 00:55:37 +0000 |
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committer | David S. Miller <[email protected]> | 2013-02-07 23:43:42 -0500 |
commit | 586c31f3bf04c290dc0a0de7fc91d20aa9a5ee53 (patch) | |
tree | 84d768747eb049ea3aab6fe7dcb26c0657a5a5d3 | |
parent | 6cddded4af7ca3a4567a301dbc43357e65a893b6 (diff) |
net: sctp: sctp_auth_key_put: use kzfree instead of kfree
For sensitive data like keying material, it is common practice to zero
out keys before returning the memory back to the allocator. Thus, use
kzfree instead of kfree.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r-- | net/sctp/auth.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/sctp/auth.c b/net/sctp/auth.c index 159b9bc5d633..d8420ae614dc 100644 --- a/net/sctp/auth.c +++ b/net/sctp/auth.c @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ void sctp_auth_key_put(struct sctp_auth_bytes *key) return; if (atomic_dec_and_test(&key->refcnt)) { - kfree(key); + kzfree(key); SCTP_DBG_OBJCNT_DEC(keys); } } |