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Date: Sat, 04 May 2024 02:51:10 +0300
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Cc: "Lukas Wunner" <lukas@wunner.de>, "Stefan Berger"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: ecc - Protect ecc_digits_from_bytes from
 reading too many bytes
From: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@kernel.org>, "Herbert Xu"
 <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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On Sat May 4, 2024 at 2:49 AM EEST, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Fri May 3, 2024 at 1:30 PM EEST, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 01:14:15PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > >=20
> > > Yeah, sure, that would be even better, or even memzero_explicit()?
> >
> > memzero_explicit should only be used for stack memory.
>
> BTW, is this in kernel documentation? It's a guideline really
> and would be nice to have reminder, that's all.

Any case makes sense and is pretty obvious now that you said it.

BR, Jarkko