From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] /dev/random updates for 3.18
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:23:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nsxioj9r1gd.fsf@closure.thunk.org> (raw)
The following changes since commit 7d1311b93e58ed55f3a31cc8f94c4b8fe988a2b9:
Linux 3.17-rc1 (2014-08-16 10:40:26 -0600)
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random.git tags/random_for_linus
for you to fetch changes up to 7185ad2672a7d50bc384de0e38d90b75d99f3d82:
crypto: memzero_explicit - make sure to clear out sensitive data (2014-10-17 11:44:07 -0400)
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This adds a memzero_explicit() call which is guaranteed not to be
optimized away by GCC. This is important when we are wiping
cryptographically sensitive material.
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Daniel Borkmann (2):
random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data
crypto: memzero_explicit - make sure to clear out sensitive data
crypto/cts.c | 3 ++-
crypto/sha1_generic.c | 2 +-
crypto/sha256_generic.c | 5 ++---
crypto/sha512_generic.c | 2 +-
crypto/tgr192.c | 4 ++--
crypto/vmac.c | 2 +-
crypto/wp512.c | 8 ++++----
drivers/char/random.c | 8 ++++----
include/linux/string.h | 5 +++--
lib/string.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
10 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
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