[PATCH 6/8] crypto: replace memset by memzero_explicit
Julia Lawall
Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr
Mon Dec 1 03:59:32 AEDT 2014
From: Julia Lawall <julia at diku.dk>
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 at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia at diku.dk>
---
Daniel Borkmann suggested that these patches could go through Herbert Xu's
cryptodev tree.
arch/powerpc/crypto/sha1.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/crypto/sha1.c b/arch/powerpc/crypto/sha1.c
index 0f88c7b..d3feba5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/crypto/sha1.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/crypto/sha1.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static int sha1_update(struct shash_desc *desc, const u8 *data,
src = data + done;
} while (done + 63 < len);
- memset(temp, 0, sizeof(temp));
+ memzero_explicit(temp, sizeof(temp));
partial = 0;
}
memcpy(sctx->buffer + partial, src, len - done);
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