From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C06E1C2BA17 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 17:48:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66860206C0 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 17:48:19 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 66860206C0 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id C96B38E000F; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 13:48:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id C1F7D8E000D; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 13:48:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id AE7868E000F; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 13:48:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from forelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0024.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.24]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 932AF8E000D for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 13:48:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtpin18.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by forelay05.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 440D3181AEF3F for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 17:48:18 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 76678164276.18.books26_2b5a473d44542 X-HE-Tag: books26_2b5a473d44542 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 3281 Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0236.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.236]) by imf25.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 17:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A75618223262; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 17:48:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: ocean62_2b0d8d0ead04a X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2122 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.136.130]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf16.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 17:48:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects From: Joe Perches To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Howells , Waiman Long , Andrew Morton , Jarkko Sakkinen , James Morris , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Linux-MM , keyrings@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:46:17 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <20200406023700.1367-1-longman@redhat.com> <319765.1586188840@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <7eb36a794df38c885689085618a8a4ff9df3dd2c.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.34.1-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 10:33 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 10:22 AM Joe Perches wrote: > > API function naming symmetry is good. [] > See? There is no API symmetry. There is only a small and immaterial > implementation detail. The symmetry to an API is the existing 300+ kzfree calls. Renaming all the kzfree calls would be fine. Consolidating all the various types of kfree to just kfree might be even better. cheers, Joe