linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 42/43] virt: sevguest: Add support to derive key

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Message-ID: <ae1644a3-bd2c-6966-4ae3-e26abd77b77b@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Mon, 7 Feb 2022 21:09:28 +0200
From:   Dov Murik <dovmurik@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
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        Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@...cle.com>,
        Dov Murik <dovmurik@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 42/43] virt: sevguest: Add support to derive key



On 07/02/2022 18:23, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/7/22 2:52 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> Those are allocated on stack, why are you clearing them?
> 
> Yep, no need to explicitly clear it. I'll take it out in next rev.
> 

Wait, this is key material generated by PSP and passed to userspace.
Why leave copies of it floating around kernel memory?  I thought that's
the whole reason for these memzero_explicit() calls (maybe add a comment?).

As an example, in arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c there are two calls
to memzero_explicit(), both on stack variables; the only reason for
these calls (as I understand it) is to avoid some future possible leak
of this sensitive data (keys, cipher context, etc.).  I'm sure there are
other examples in the kernel code.


-Dov