[PATCH net v1] net: wireless: Use kfree_sensitive instead of kfree

From: Wang Ming
Date: Mon Jul 17 2023 - 05:37:23 EST


key might contain private part of the key, so better use
kfree_sensitive to free it.

Fixes: 7cec84fdfd88 ("staging: wilc1000: split add_key() to avoid line over 80 chars")
Signed-off-by: Wang Ming <machel@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c
index b545d93c6e37..45bcadeba2da 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ static int wilc_wfi_cfg_allocate_wpa_igtk_entry(struct wilc_priv *priv, u8 idx)
static int wilc_wfi_cfg_copy_wpa_info(struct wilc_wfi_key *key_info,
struct key_params *params)
{
- kfree(key_info->key);
+ kfree_sensitive(key_info->key);

key_info->key = kmemdup(params->key, params->key_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!key_info->key)
@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ static int del_key(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *netdev, int link_id,
if (!pairwise && (key_index == 4 || key_index == 5)) {
key_index -= 4;
if (priv->wilc_igtk[key_index]) {
- kfree(priv->wilc_igtk[key_index]->key);
+ kfree_sensitive(priv->wilc_igtk[key_index]->key);
priv->wilc_igtk[key_index]->key = NULL;
kfree(priv->wilc_igtk[key_index]->seq);
priv->wilc_igtk[key_index]->seq = NULL;
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ static int del_key(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *netdev, int link_id,
}
} else {
if (priv->wilc_gtk[key_index]) {
- kfree(priv->wilc_gtk[key_index]->key);
+ kfree_sensitive(priv->wilc_gtk[key_index]->key);
priv->wilc_gtk[key_index]->key = NULL;
kfree(priv->wilc_gtk[key_index]->seq);
priv->wilc_gtk[key_index]->seq = NULL;
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ static int del_key(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *netdev, int link_id,
priv->wilc_gtk[key_index] = NULL;
}
if (priv->wilc_ptk[key_index]) {
- kfree(priv->wilc_ptk[key_index]->key);
+ kfree_sensitive(priv->wilc_ptk[key_index]->key);
priv->wilc_ptk[key_index]->key = NULL;
kfree(priv->wilc_ptk[key_index]->seq);
priv->wilc_ptk[key_index]->seq = NULL;
--
2.25.1