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Re: [patch] crypto: keywrap - memzero the correct memory

From Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [patch] crypto: keywrap - memzero the correct memory
Date 2016-01-31 14:10 +0100
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Am Samstag, 30. Januar 2016, 17:38:28 schrieb Dan Carpenter:

Hi Dan,

> We're clearing the wrong memory.  The memory corruption is likely
> harmless because we weren't going to use that stack memory again but not
> zeroing is a potential information leak.
> 
> Fixes: e28facde3c39 ('crypto: keywrap - add key wrapping block chaining
> mode') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Acked-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>

Thanks
Stephan

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[patch] crypto: keywrap - memzero the correct memory Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2016-01-30 15:50 +0100
  Re: [patch] crypto: keywrap - memzero the correct memory Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> - 2016-01-31 14:10 +0100
  Re: [patch] crypto: keywrap - memzero the correct memory Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-02-01 15:40 +0100

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