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authorDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>2013-02-07 00:55:37 (GMT)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-02-08 04:43:42 (GMT)
commit586c31f3bf04c290dc0a0de7fc91d20aa9a5ee53 (patch)
tree84d768747eb049ea3aab6fe7dcb26c0657a5a5d3 /net/sctp/auth.c
parent6cddded4af7ca3a4567a301dbc43357e65a893b6 (diff)
downloadlinux-586c31f3bf04c290dc0a0de7fc91d20aa9a5ee53.tar.xz
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 <dborkman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sctp/auth.c')
-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 159b9bc..d8420ae 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);
}
}