From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] w1: Use kfree_sensitive() instead of memset(0) and kfree()
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:15:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <581388A8-4FC3-4FC0-9D5B-9F13DCB90073@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc0c13df-a0a6-4cf7-badc-c08a9a7054f6@kernel.org>
On 30. Sep 2024, at 13:50, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> wrote:
> On 30/09/2024 13:44, Thorsten Blum wrote:
>> Use kfree_sensitive() to simplify w1_unref_slave() and remove the
>> following Coccinelle/coccicheck warning reported by
>> kfree_sensitive.cocci:
>>
>> WARNING opportunity for kfree_sensitive/kvfree_sensitive
>
> So are you fixing coccinelle just to hide the warning or actually fixing
> issue? Why this structure should be zeroed?
No issue, just a refactoring (+zeroing out) to silence the warning. The
structure probably doesn't need to be zeroed out, but why is it done
for DEBUG builds?
>> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
>> ---
>> Please note: this change assumes that #ifdef DEBUG is no longer needed
>> and we should always zero out the memory.
>
> But why are you assuming that? Your patch is not equivalent and I do not
> see any explanation in commit msg why is that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-30 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-30 11:44 Thorsten Blum
2024-09-30 11:50 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2024-09-30 12:15 ` Thorsten Blum [this message]
2024-09-30 13:08 ` Thorsten Blum
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