Waiman Long 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-ze
On 6/15/20 11:30 PM, Eric Biggers wrote:
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 09:57:16PM -0400, Waiman Long 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() is currently used for the buffer clea
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 08:42:08AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 15-06-20 21:57:16, Waiman Long 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() is currently used for
On Mon 15-06-20 21:57:16, Waiman Long 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() is currently used for the buffer clearing. However,
> it is entirely possible that the comp
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 09:57:16PM -0400, Waiman Long 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() is currently used for the buffer clearing. However,
> it is entirely possib
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() is currently used for the buffer clearing. However,
it is entirely possible that the compiler may choose to optimize away the
memory clearing
