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Message-ID: <19f2c248-155b-2501-f2db-27f0f9a21332@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:32:29 +0200
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     Wang Ming <machel@...o.com>, Mark Pearson <markpearson@...ovo.com>,
        Mark Gross <markgross@...nel.org>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     opensource.kernel@...o.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] platform: x86: Use kfree_sensitive instead of kfree

Hi,

On 7/17/23 12:11, Wang Ming wrote:
> key might contain private part of the key, so better use
> kfree_sensitive to free it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Ming <machel@...o.com>

Thank you for your patch, I've applied this patch to my fixes
branch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git/log/?h=fixes

Note it will show up in my fixes branch once I've pushed my
local branch there, which might take a while.

I will include this patch in my next fixes pull-req to Linus
for the current kernel development cycle.

Regards,

Hans



> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c
> index 52d1ce8dfe44..79346881cadb 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c
> @@ -719,12 +719,12 @@ static ssize_t cert_to_password_store(struct kobject *kobj,
>  	/* Format: 'Password,Signature' */
>  	auth_str = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s,%s", passwd, setting->signature);
>  	if (!auth_str) {
> -		kfree(passwd);
> +		kfree_sensitive(passwd);
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	}
>  	ret = tlmi_simple_call(LENOVO_CERT_TO_PASSWORD_GUID, auth_str);
>  	kfree(auth_str);
> -	kfree(passwd);
> +	kfree_sensitive(passwd);
>  
>  	return ret ?: count;
>  }