linux-kernel - Re: [patch] crypto: keywrap - memzero the correct memory

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Date:	Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:00:16 +0100
From:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] crypto: keywrap - memzero the correct memory

Am Samstag, 30. Januar 2016, 17:38:28 schrieb Dan Carpenter:

Hi Dan,

> We're clearing the wrong memory.  The memory corruption is likely
> harmless because we weren't going to use that stack memory again but not
> zeroing is a potential information leak.
> 
> Fixes: e28facde3c39 ('crypto: keywrap - add key wrapping block chaining
> mode') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Acked-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>

Thanks
Stephan