Arjan van de Ven writes:
> On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:47:42 +0100
> Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > +void secure_bzero(void *p, size_t n)
> > +{
> > + memset(p, 0, n);
> > + ARRAY_PREVENT_DSE(p, n);
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(secure_bzero);
>
>
> please don't introduce bzero again to the kernel;
>
> make it secure_memset() please.
In principle I would agree, but bzero() avoids the unfortunately
rather common mistake of swapping the int/size_t parameters to
memset(). I.e., people writing memset(p, n, 0) not memset(p, 0, n).
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