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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:07:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200615180753.GJ4151@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200413211550.8307-2-longman@redhat.com>

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 05:15:49PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
> index 23c7500eea7d..c08bc7eb20bd 100644
> --- a/mm/slab_common.c
> +++ b/mm/slab_common.c
> @@ -1707,17 +1707,17 @@ void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc);
>  
>  /**
> - * kzfree - like kfree but zero memory
> + * kfree_sensitive - Clear sensitive information in memory before freeing
>   * @p: object to free memory of
>   *
>   * The memory of the object @p points to is zeroed before freed.
> - * If @p is %NULL, kzfree() does nothing.
> + * If @p is %NULL, kfree_sensitive() does nothing.
>   *
>   * Note: this function zeroes the whole allocated buffer which can be a good
>   * deal bigger than the requested buffer size passed to kmalloc(). So be
>   * careful when using this function in performance sensitive code.
>   */
> -void kzfree(const void *p)
> +void kfree_sensitive(const void *p)
>  {
>  	size_t ks;
>  	void *mem = (void *)p;
> @@ -1725,10 +1725,10 @@ void kzfree(const void *p)
>  	if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(mem)))
>  		return;
>  	ks = ksize(mem);
> -	memset(mem, 0, ks);
> +	memzero_explicit(mem, ks);
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is an unrelated bug fix.  It really needs to be pulled into a
separate patch by itself and back ported to stable kernels.

>  	kfree(mem);
>  }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_sensitive);
>  
>  /**
>   * ksize - get the actual amount of memory allocated for a given object

regards,
dan carpenter

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-15 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-13 21:15 [PATCH 0/2] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() Waiman Long
2020-04-13 21:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Waiman Long
2020-04-14  0:29   ` David Rientjes
2020-04-14  8:32   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-04-14  9:01   ` Michal Hocko
2020-04-14 12:48   ` David Sterba
2020-04-14 18:26     ` Waiman Long
2020-04-15  5:01   ` Johannes Weiner
2020-06-15 18:07   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2020-06-15 18:39     ` Waiman Long
2020-04-13 21:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] crypto: Remove unnecessary memzero_explicit() Waiman Long
2020-04-13 21:31   ` Joe Perches
2020-04-13 21:52     ` Waiman Long
2020-04-13 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 " Waiman Long
2020-04-14  6:08   ` Christophe Leroy
2020-04-14 16:24     ` Waiman Long
2020-04-14 19:16       ` Michal Suchánek
2020-04-14 19:37         ` Waiman Long
2020-04-14 19:44           ` Joe Perches
2020-04-14 13:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() David Howells

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