From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] mm/slab: Use memzero_explicit() in kzfree()
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:46:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <879079.1592322400@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56c2304c-73cc-8f48-d8d0-5dd6c39f33f3@redhat.com>
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> wrote:
> The kzfree() function is normally used to clear some sensitive
> information, like encryption keys, in the buffer before freeing it back
> to the pool. Memset()
"memset()" is all lowercase.
> is currently used for buffer clearing. However unlikely, there is still a
> non-zero probability
I'd say "a possibility".
> that
and I'd move "in [the] future" here.
> the compiler may choose to optimize away the
> memory clearing especially if LTO is being used in the future. To make sure
> that this optimization will never happen
"in these cases"
> , memzero_explicit(), which is introduced in v3.18, is now used in
"instead of"?
> kzfree() to future-proof it.
Davod
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-16 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-16 1:57 [PATCH v4 0/3] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() Waiman Long
2020-06-16 1:57 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] mm/slab: Use memzero_explicit() in kzfree() Waiman Long
2020-06-16 3:30 ` Eric Biggers
2020-06-16 13:05 ` Waiman Long
2020-06-16 15:46 ` David Howells [this message]
2020-06-16 6:42 ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-16 9:08 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-06-16 1:57 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() Waiman Long
2020-06-16 14:26 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-06-16 15:05 ` Waiman Long
2020-06-16 1:57 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] btrfs: Use kfree() in btrfs_ioctl_get_subvol_info() Waiman Long
2020-06-16 14:48 ` David Sterba
2020-06-16 15:05 ` Waiman Long
2020-06-16 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() Joe Perches
2020-06-16 19:43 ` Waiman Long
2020-06-16 19:46 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-06-16 20:01 ` Waiman Long
2020-06-16 21:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-16 23:01 ` David Sterba
2020-06-17 0:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-17 7:12 ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-17 11:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-17 11:31 ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-17 12:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-17 12:55 ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-17 8:03 ` Jo -l
2020-06-17 21:31 ` Denis Efremov
2020-06-17 23:12 ` Joe Perches
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