net: sctp: sctp_auth_key_put: use kzfree instead of kfree

[ Upstream commit 586c31f3bf04c290dc0a0de7fc91d20aa9a5ee53 ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

diff --git a/net/sctp/auth.c b/net/sctp/auth.c
index bf81204..333926d 100644 (file)
--- 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);
        }
 }