mm: add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects

For kvmalloc'ed data object that contains sensitive information like
cryptographic keys, we need to make sure that the buffer is always cleared
before freeing it.  Using memset() alone for buffer clearing may not
provide certainty as the compiler may compile it away.  To be sure, the
special memzero_explicit() has to be used.

This patch introduces a new kvfree_sensitive() for freeing those sensitive
data objects allocated by kvmalloc().  The relevant places where
kvfree_sensitive() can be used are modified to use it.

Fixes: 4f0882491a14 ("KEYS: Avoid false positive ENOMEM error on key read")
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200407200318.11711-1-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index fd9efe6bd463..cd62e6fb5318 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -604,6 +604,24 @@ void kvfree(const void *addr)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvfree);
 
+/**
+ * kvfree_sensitive - Free a data object containing sensitive information.
+ * @addr: address of the data object to be freed.
+ * @len: length of the data object.
+ *
+ * Use the special memzero_explicit() function to clear the content of a
+ * kvmalloc'ed object containing sensitive data to make sure that the
+ * compiler won't optimize out the data clearing.
+ */
+void kvfree_sensitive(const void *addr, size_t len)
+{
+	if (likely(!ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(addr))) {
+		memzero_explicit((void *)addr, len);
+		kvfree(addr);
+	}
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvfree_sensitive);
+
 static inline void *__page_rmapping(struct page *page)
 {
 	unsigned long mapping;