Re: [PATCH] mm: Add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects

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On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 10:33 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 10:22 AM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > API function naming symmetry is good.
[]
> See? There is no API symmetry. There is only a small and immaterial
> implementation detail.

The symmetry to an API is the existing 300+
kzfree calls.

Renaming all the kzfree calls would be fine.

Consolidating all the various types of kfree
to just kfree might be even better.

cheers, Joe





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