From: Julia Lawall <julia@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@xxxxxxx> --- Daniel Borkmann suggested that these patches could go through Herbert Xu's cryptodev tree. I was not able to compile test this one. arch/arm/crypto/sha512_neon_glue.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/crypto/sha512_neon_glue.c b/arch/arm/crypto/sha512_neon_glue.c index f3452c6..b124dce 100644 --- a/arch/arm/crypto/sha512_neon_glue.c +++ b/arch/arm/crypto/sha512_neon_glue.c @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static int sha384_neon_final(struct shash_desc *desc, u8 *hash) sha512_neon_final(desc, D); memcpy(hash, D, SHA384_DIGEST_SIZE); - memset(D, 0, SHA512_DIGEST_SIZE); + memzero_explicit(D, SHA512_DIGEST_SIZE); return 0; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
