Commit 586c31f3 authored by Daniel Borkmann's avatar Daniel Borkmann Committed by David S. Miller
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net: sctp: sctp_auth_key_put: use kzfree instead of kfree 



For sensitive data like keying material, it is common practice to zero
out keys before returning the memory back to the allocator. Thus, use
kzfree instead of kfree.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 6cddded4

net/sctp/auth.c

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@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ void sctp_auth_key_put(struct sctp_auth_bytes *key) 
		return;



	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&key->refcnt)) {

		kfree(key);

		kzfree(key);

		SCTP_DBG_OBJCNT_DEC(keys);

	}

}