On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 10:37:00PM +0100, Giel van Schijndel wrote: > When leaving a function use memzero_explicit instead of memset(0) to > clear stack allocated buffers. memset(0) may be optimized away. > > This particular buffer is highly likely to contain sensitive data which > we shouldn't leak (it's named 'passwd' after all). > > Signed-off-by: Giel van Schijndel <me@xxxxxxxxx> > Reported-at: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0299/ > Reported-by: Andrey Karpov > Reported-by: Svyatoslav Razmyslov Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
