The patch titled
slab: introduce kzfree()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
slab-introduce-kzfree.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: slab: introduce kzfree()
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
kzfree() is a wrapper for kfree() that additionally zeroes the underlying
memory before releasing it to the slab allocator.
Currently there is code which memset()s the memory region of an object
before releasing it back to the slab allocator to make sure
security-sensitive data are really zeroed out after use.
These callsites can then just use kzfree() which saves some code, makes
users greppable and allows for a stupid destructor that isn't necessarily
aware of the actual object size.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/slab.h | 1 +
mm/util.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff -puN include/linux/slab.h~slab-introduce-kzfree include/linux/slab.h
--- a/include/linux/slab.h~slab-introduce-kzfree
+++ a/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ int kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache
void * __must_check __krealloc(const void *, size_t, gfp_t);
void * __must_check krealloc(const void *, size_t, gfp_t);
void kfree(const void *);
+void kzfree(const void *);
size_t ksize(const void *);
/*
diff -puN mm/util.c~slab-introduce-kzfree mm/util.c
--- a/mm/util.c~slab-introduce-kzfree
+++ a/mm/util.c
@@ -129,6 +129,26 @@ void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc);
+/**
+ * kzfree - like kfree but zero memory
+ * @p: object to free memory of
+ *
+ * The memory of the object @p points to is zeroed before freed.
+ * If @p is %NULL, kzfree() does nothing.
+ */
+void kzfree(const void *p)
+{
+ size_t ks;
+ void *mem = (void *)p;
+
+ if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(mem)))
+ return;
+ ks = ksize(mem);
+ memset(mem, 0, ks);
+ kfree(mem);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree);
+
/*
* strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space
* @s: The string to duplicate
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
cifs-use-kzfree.patch
md-use-kzfree.patch
s390-use-kzfree.patch
usb-use-kzfree.patch
crypto-use-kzfree.patch
vmscan-rename-scmay_swap-to-may_unmap.patch
mm-introduce-for_each_populated_zone-macro.patch
mm-introduce-for_each_populated_zone-macro-cleanup.patch
mm-shrink_all_memory-use-scnr_reclaimed.patch
mm-shrink_all_memory-use-scnr_reclaimed-checkpatch-fixes.patch
vmscan-clip-swap_cluster_max-in-shrink_all_memory.patch
vmscan-respect-higher-order-in-zone_reclaim.patch
ecryptfs-use-kzfree.patch
memcg-remove-mem_cgroup_calc_mapped_ratio-take2.patch
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