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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <[email protected]>2012-08-22 13:39:21 +0200
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <[email protected]>2012-08-23 06:55:35 +0200
commit0b886ad1bda23c01a68d0ebeac9ec480ca5690fd (patch)
tree91ab9f3d614af27d73e6e8266bd2249495a7ed62 /src/crypter.h
parentHandle locked pages more robustly (Fixes issue #1462) (diff)
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Make CCrypter use LockedPageManager to manage locked pages
Replace direct calls to mlock. Also, change the class to lock the memory areas in the constructor and unlock them again in the destructor. This makes sure that locked pages won't leak.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/crypter.h')
-rw-r--r--src/crypter.h11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/crypter.h b/src/crypter.h
index d1bdb92c9..04538a3fa 100644
--- a/src/crypter.h
+++ b/src/crypter.h
@@ -78,19 +78,26 @@ public:
{
memset(&chKey, 0, sizeof chKey);
memset(&chIV, 0, sizeof chIV);
- munlock(&chKey, sizeof chKey);
- munlock(&chIV, sizeof chIV);
fKeySet = false;
}
CCrypter()
{
fKeySet = false;
+
+ // Try to keep the key data out of swap (and be a bit over-careful to keep the IV that we don't even use out of swap)
+ // Note that this does nothing about suspend-to-disk (which will put all our key data on disk)
+ // Note as well that at no point in this program is any attempt made to prevent stealing of keys by reading the memory of the running process.
+ LockedPageManager::instance.LockRange(&chKey[0], sizeof chKey);
+ LockedPageManager::instance.LockRange(&chIV[0], sizeof chIV);
}
~CCrypter()
{
CleanKey();
+
+ LockedPageManager::instance.UnlockRange(&chKey[0], sizeof chKey);
+ LockedPageManager::instance.UnlockRange(&chIV[0], sizeof chIV);
}
};