From: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>,
cocci@systeme.lip6.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: api: add kzfree script
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:51:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <99e46d3d-b651-15a4-df94-1b4aa3719954@linux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200615120332.GJ4282@kadam>
On 6/15/20 3:03 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 10:42:54PM +0300, Denis Efremov wrote:
>> On 6/4/20 7:27 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 17:08 +0300, Denis Efremov wrote:
>>>> Check for memset() with 0 followed by kfree().
>>>
>>> Perhaps those uses should be memzero_explicit or kvfree_sensitive.
>>>
>>
>> Is it safe to suggest to use kzfree instead of memzero_explicit && kfree?
>> Or it would be better to use kvfree_sensitive in this case.
>>
>> kzfree uses memset(0) with no barrier_data.
>
> Yeah. That seems buggy. It should have a barrier. Also I thought I
> saw somewhere that Linus doesn't like the name and so that's why we have
> the _sensitive() name?
>
Oh, there are already patches for renaming kzfree to kfree_sensitive.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/13/729
It seems they are not accepted despite multiple acks, through.
Thanks,
Denis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-15 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-04 14:08 [PATCH] coccinelle: api: add kzfree script Denis Efremov
2020-06-04 14:15 ` Julia Lawall
2020-06-04 15:39 ` Denis Efremov
2020-06-04 15:51 ` Julia Lawall
2020-06-04 17:22 ` Denis Efremov
2020-06-04 17:28 ` Julia Lawall
2020-06-04 16:27 ` Joe Perches
2020-06-04 17:30 ` Denis Efremov
2020-06-04 17:36 ` Joe Perches
2020-06-14 19:42 ` Denis Efremov
2020-06-14 20:01 ` Joe Perches
2020-06-15 12:03 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-06-15 13:51 ` Denis Efremov [this message]
2020-06-04 20:48 ` [PATCH v2] " Denis Efremov
2020-06-04 20:57 ` [Cocci] " Julia Lawall
2020-06-04 21:03 ` Denis Efremov
2020-06-04 21:25 ` Denis Efremov
2020-06-06 8:16 ` Julia Lawall
2020-06-14 21:54 ` [PATCH v3] " Denis Efremov
2020-06-17 20:42 ` [Cocci] " Julia Lawall
2020-06-17 21:42 ` Denis Efremov
2020-07-07 21:35 ` Julia Lawall
2020-07-17 11:57 ` [PATCH v4] " Denis Efremov
2020-07-17 20:39 ` Julia Lawall
2020-08-10 23:45 ` Eric Biggers
2020-08-11 7:12 ` Denis Efremov
2020-08-11 7:49 ` [PATCH] coccinelle: api: update kzfree script to kfree_sensitive Denis Efremov
2020-08-26 8:12 ` Denis Efremov
2020-09-12 15:08 ` Julia Lawall
2020-06-04 15:20 [PATCH] coccinelle: api: add kzfree script Markus Elfring
2020-06-04 15:56 ` Julia Lawall
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