From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
To: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: memset() in crypto code?
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 09:18:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5434E531.10603@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACXcFmkhZSkT1_K07_bM-MREFENVvrwDrhOtQ=1XQuK-jy3WXQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/08/2014 04:30 AM, Sandy Harris wrote:
> I have started a thread about this on the gcc help mailing list
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2014-10/msg00047.html
Great, perhaps you want to pass a patch proposal to gcc folks?
> We might consider replacinging memzero_explicit with memset_s() since
> that is in the C!! standard, albeit I think as optional. IBM, Apple,
> NetBSD, ... have that.
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2012/02/24/msg006125.html
The patch you point to for NetBSD does nothing else what memzero_explicit()
or bzero_explicit() variants already internally do, only that they're
discussing about whether to adopt it or not in their user space libc ...
Cheers,
Daniel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-08 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-05 3:09 memset() in crypto code? Sandy Harris
2014-10-05 10:33 ` Daniel Borkmann
2014-10-06 17:44 ` Jason Cooper
2014-10-06 17:59 ` Sandy Harris
2014-10-06 18:23 ` Jason Cooper
2014-10-06 18:52 ` Sandy Harris
2014-10-06 19:02 ` Daniel Borkmann
2014-10-08 2:30 ` Sandy Harris
2014-10-08 7:18 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
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