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Commit 0620fddb authored by Eric Biggers's avatar Eric Biggers Committed by James Morris
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KEYS: sanitize key structs before freeing



While a 'struct key' itself normally does not contain sensitive
information, Documentation/security/keys.txt actually encourages this:

     "Having a payload is not required; and the payload can, in fact,
     just be a value stored in the struct key itself."

In case someone has taken this advice, or will take this advice in the
future, zero the key structure before freeing it.  We might as well, and
as a bonus this could make it a bit more difficult for an adversary to
determine which keys have recently been in use.

This is safe because the key_jar cache does not use a constructor.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
parent ee618b46
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