On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 06:03:43PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> > > Memset on a local variable may be removed when it is called just before the > variable goes out of scope. Using memzero_explicit defeats this > optimization. A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this > change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > // <smpl> > @@ > identifier x; > type T; > @@ > > { > ... when any > T x[...]; > ... when any > when exists > - memset > + memzero_explicit > (x, > -0, > ...) > ... when != x > when strict > } > // </smpl> > > This change was suggested by Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> Applied patches 2, 3, 6, 7. -- 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-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
