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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 23:35:35 +0300
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
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        Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:01:39PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> +void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count)
> +{
> +	memset(s, 0, count);
> +	OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(s);
> +}

BSD seems to name it explicit_bzero().

	Alexey