[PATCH net v1] net: ipv4: Use kfree_sensitive instead of kfree

From: Wang Ming
Date: Mon Jul 17 2023 - 05:59:56 EST


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

Fixes: 38320c70d282 ("[IPSEC]: Use crypto_aead and authenc in ESP")
Signed-off-by: Wang Ming <machel@xxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/esp4.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/esp4.c b/net/ipv4/esp4.c
index ba06ed42e428..2be2d4922557 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/esp4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/esp4.c
@@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ static int esp_init_authenc(struct xfrm_state *x,
err = crypto_aead_setkey(aead, key, keylen);

free_key:
- kfree(key);
+ kfree_sensitive(key);

error:
return err;
--
2.25.1