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authorDaniel Borkmann <[email protected]>2013-02-07 00:55:37 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <[email protected]>2013-02-07 23:43:42 -0500
commit586c31f3bf04c290dc0a0de7fc91d20aa9a5ee53 (patch)
tree84d768747eb049ea3aab6fe7dcb26c0657a5a5d3
parent6cddded4af7ca3a4567a301dbc43357e65a893b6 (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.c2
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);
}
}