Re: [PATCH v1] scsi: iscsi: use kfree_sensitive() in iscsi_session_free()

[Lee Duncan]

On 7/17/23 02:26, Minjie Du wrote:
> session might contain private part of the password, so better use
> kfree_sensitive() to free it.
> In iscsi_session_free() use kfree_sensitive() to free session->password.
>
> Signed-off-by: Minjie Du <duminjie@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c
> index 0fda8905e..2f273229c 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c
> @@ -3132,7 +3132,7 @@ void iscsi_session_free(struct iscsi_cls_session *cls_session)
>   	struct module *owner = cls_session->transport->owner;
>   
>   	iscsi_pool_free(&session->cmdpool);
> -	kfree(session->password);
> +	kfree_sensitive(session->password);
>   	kfree(session->password_in);
>   	kfree(session->username);
>   	kfree(session->username_in);

Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@xxxxxxxx>