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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	andi@firstfloor.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] compiler: prevent dead store elimination
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:33:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6fcc0a1003010133w45515b17g365d42afd6407eb8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19339.35216.412591.13392@pilspetsen.it.uu.se>

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven writes:
>  > On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:47:42 +0100
>  > Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > +void secure_bzero(void *p, size_t n)
>  > > +{
>  > > +  memset(p, 0, n);
>  > > +  ARRAY_PREVENT_DSE(p, n);
>  > > +}
>  > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(secure_bzero);
>  >
>  >
>  > please don't introduce bzero again to the kernel;
>  >
>  > make it secure_memset() please.

What's so secure in this function? :^)
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-01  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-27 20:47 [PATCH v1] compiler: prevent dead store elimination Roel Kluin
2010-02-28  9:55 ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-28 15:34   ` [PATCH v2] " Roel Kluin
2010-03-01  9:29     ` Mikael Pettersson
2010-03-02 12:17       ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-03 23:16       ` [PATCH v3] " Roel Kluin
2010-03-02 12:24     ` [PATCH v2] " Andi Kleen
2010-03-01  0:36   ` [PATCH v1] " Bill Davidsen
2010-03-01  5:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-03-01  9:32   ` Mikael Pettersson
2010-03-01  9:33     ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2010-03-01 22:27   ` Andi Kleen

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