Vulnerability CVE-2024-42158
Published: 2024-07-30

Description:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

s390/pkey: Use kfree_sensitive() to fix Coccinelle warnings

Replace memzero_explicit() and kfree() with kfree_sensitive() to fix
warnings reported by Coccinelle:

WARNING opportunity for kfree_sensitive/kvfree_sensitive (line 1506)
WARNING opportunity for kfree_sensitive/kvfree_sensitive (line 1643)
WARNING opportunity for kfree_sensitive/kvfree_sensitive (line 1770)

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62151a0acde90823bdfa991d598c85cf4b1d387d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22e6824622e8a8889df0f8fc4ed5aea0e702a694
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