[PATCH 1/5] KEYS: sanitize add_key() and keyctl() key payloads

Eric Biggers ebiggers3 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 2 17:24:17 UTC 2017


On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 04:34:44PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Eric Biggers <ebiggers3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >  error2:
> > +	memzero_explicit(payload, plen);
> 
> Isn't that wrong?  payload can be NULL.
> 
> David

If you're talking about memset(NULL, ..., 0) being undefined behavior, it's
completely insane but sure, I guess we should add the NULL check to be safe.  It
would also mean there would be no requirement that "KEYS: fix dereferencing NULL
payload with nonzero length" be applied first so the second paragraph of the
commit message would be removed.  I'll send a v2 of just this patch.

Eric
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