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
next prev 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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