From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, zatimend@hotmail.co.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:38:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53FB9EBF.1050108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140825203535.GA2038@p183.telecom.by>
On 08/25/2014 10:35 PM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 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().
Sure, that's what I wrote in the commit log. But we don't have
bzero(), and I think the name is more clear and conform to
mem*() API.
Best,
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-25 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-25 20:01 Daniel Borkmann
2014-08-25 20:35 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2014-08-25 20:38 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2014-08-25 23:11 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-08-27 3:21 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-12-01 10:27 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-12-01 11:04 ` Daniel Borkmann
2014-12-01 11:29 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-12-01 11:38 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-12-01 13:39 ` Daniel Borkmann
2014-12-01 11:48 ` Daniel Borkmann
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