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> --- Daniel Borkmann suggested that these patches could go through Herbert Xu's cryptodev tree. v2: fixed email address drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c index fc93b93..08981be 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c @@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ static int crypt_iv_tcw_whitening(struct crypt_config *cc, for (i = 0; i < ((1 << SECTOR_SHIFT) / 8); i++) crypto_xor(data + i * 8, buf, 8); out: - memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf)); + memzero_explicit(buf, sizeof(buf)); return r; } -- 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
