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From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 6/8 v2] crypto: replace memset by memzero_explicit
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:03:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1417367029-32762-7-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417367029-32762-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>

From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>

Memset on a local variable may be removed when it is called just before the
variable goes out of scope.  Using memzero_explicit defeats this
optimization.  A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this
change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
identifier x;
type T;
@@

{
... when any
T x[...];
... when any
    when exists
- memset
+ memzero_explicit
  (x,
-0,
  ...)
... when != x
    when strict
}
// </smpl>

This change was suggested by Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>

---
Daniel Borkmann suggested that these patches could go through Herbert Xu's
cryptodev tree.

v2: fixed email address

 arch/powerpc/crypto/sha1.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/crypto/sha1.c b/arch/powerpc/crypto/sha1.c
index 0f88c7b..d3feba5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/crypto/sha1.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/crypto/sha1.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static int sha1_update(struct shash_desc *desc, const u8 *data,
 			src = data + done;
 		} while (done + 63 < len);
 
-		memset(temp, 0, sizeof(temp));
+		memzero_explicit(temp, sizeof(temp));
 		partial = 0;
 	}
 	memcpy(sctx->buffer + partial, src, len - done);

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-30 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-30 17:03 [PATCH 0/8] replace memset by memzero_explicit Julia Lawall
2014-11-30 17:03 ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2014-12-01  0:58   ` [PATCH 6/8 v2] crypto: " Michael Ellerman

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