[PATCH 6/8 v2] crypto: replace memset by memzero_explicit
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Dec 1 11:58:17 AEDT 2014
On Sun, 2014-11-30 at 18:03 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr>
>
> 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
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr>
>
> ---
> Daniel Borkmann suggested that these patches could go through Herbert Xu's
> cryptodev tree.
That's fine by me:
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
cheers
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