[PATCH] Revert "conf: clean up memory containing secrets before freeing"

Pavel Hrdina phrdina at redhat.com
Wed Sep 7 12:24:08 UTC 2022


On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 01:13:23PM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> Adding supposedly secure cleanup for secrets in anything related to the
> XML parser is pointless because there are multiple other un-sanitized
> copies of the full XML and the XML parser state at the very least.
> 
> Similarly in case RPC was used to transport the XML the RPC buffers are
> not sanitized.
> 
> Additionally this patch was incomplete as it didn't sanitize the the
> password in the cleanup function for virDomainGraphicsAuthDef.
> 
> This reverts commit 51f8130d78fde3201b49c02b7095ff918b6e658a.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/conf/domain_conf.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina at redhat.com>
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