[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 34/47] platform/x86: think-lmi: Use kfree_sensitive instead of kfree

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sun Aug 13 2023 - 12:05:49 EST


From: Wang Ming <machel@xxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 1da0893aed2e48e2bdf37c29b029f2e060d25927 ]

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

Signed-off-by: Wang Ming <machel@xxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230717101114.18966-1-machel@xxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 3cbb92b6c5215..f6290221d139d 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;
}
--
2.40.1