crypto: skcipher - Add helper to zero stack request

Orabug: 26644685

As the size of an skcipher_request is variable, it's awkward to
zero it explicitly.  This patch adds a helper to do that which
should be used when it is created on the stack.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
(cherry picked from commit 1aaa753d918c48c603195a468766e6a2b32b87f9)
Signed-off-by: Somasundaram Krishnasamy <somasundaram.krishnasamy@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jack Vogel <jack.vogel@oracle.com>

diff --git a/include/crypto/skcipher.h b/include/crypto/skcipher.h
index d8dd41fb034fe5af52b68699096abb6ebc5559d5..85a8bbc22b7e5803da896988ef037f6b387249af 100644 (file)
--- a/include/crypto/skcipher.h
+++ b/include/crypto/skcipher.h
@@ -433,6 +433,13 @@ static inline void skcipher_request_free(struct skcipher_request *req)
        kzfree(req);
 }
 
+static inline void skcipher_request_zero(struct skcipher_request *req)
+{
+       struct crypto_skcipher *tfm = crypto_skcipher_reqtfm(req);
+
+       memzero_explicit(req, sizeof(*req) + crypto_skcipher_reqsize(tfm));
+}
+
 /**
  * skcipher_request_set_callback() - set asynchronous callback function
  * @req: request handle