linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: amlogic

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Message-ID: <20200826132440.GA13819@Red>
Date:   Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:24:40 +0200
From:   Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
To:     Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
Cc:     linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, Corentin Labbe <clabbe@...libre.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: amlogic - use kfree_sensitive()

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 04:16:57PM +0300, Denis Efremov wrote:
> Use kfree_sensitive() instead of open-coding it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/amlogic/amlogic-gxl-cipher.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/amlogic/amlogic-gxl-cipher.c b/drivers/crypto/amlogic/amlogic-gxl-cipher.c
> index d93210726697..f3dca456d9f8 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/amlogic/amlogic-gxl-cipher.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/amlogic/amlogic-gxl-cipher.c
> @@ -341,8 +341,7 @@ void meson_cipher_exit(struct crypto_tfm *tfm)
>  	struct meson_cipher_tfm_ctx *op = crypto_tfm_ctx(tfm);
>  
>  	if (op->key) {
> -		memzero_explicit(op->key, op->keylen);
> -		kfree(op->key);
> +		kfree_sensitive(op->key);
>  	}
>  	crypto_free_skcipher(op->fallback_tfm);
>  }
> @@ -368,8 +367,7 @@ int meson_aes_setkey(struct crypto_skcipher *tfm, const u8 *key,
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  	if (op->key) {
> -		memzero_explicit(op->key, op->keylen);
> -		kfree(op->key);
> +		kfree_sensitive(op->key);
>  	}
>  	op->keylen = keylen;
>  	op->key = kmemdup(key, keylen, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
> -- 

So the {} are no longer necessary.
Same for the "if (op->key)" test since kfree handle NULL.

Thanks