[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "dm crypt: use memzero_explicit for on-stack buffer" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    dm crypt: use memzero_explicit for on-stack buffer

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt15.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Milan Broz <gmazyland at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 09:36:04 +0100
Subject: dm crypt: use memzero_explicit for on-stack buffer

commit 1a71d6ffe18c0d0f03fc8531949cc8ed41d702ee upstream.

Use memzero_explicit to cleanup sensitive data allocated on stack
to prevent the compiler from optimizing and removing memset() calls.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
index 8c148f4..5e3f7de 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ static int crypt_iv_tcw_whitening(struct crypt_config *cc,
 	for (i = 0; i < ((1 << SECTOR_SHIFT) / 8); i++)
 		crypto_xor(data + i * 8, buf, 8);
 out:
-	memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
+	memzero_explicit(buf, sizeof(buf));
 	return r;
 }

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