From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
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: Re: [PATCH 6/8 v2] crypto: replace memset by memzero_explicit
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:58:17 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1417395497.16178.0.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417367029-32762-7-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
On Sun, 2014-11-30 at 18:03 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 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
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
>
> ---
> Daniel Borkmann suggested that these patches could go through Herbert Xu's
> cryptodev tree.
That's fine by me:
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
cheers
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-01 0:58 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 ` [PATCH 6/8 v2] crypto: " Julia Lawall
2014-12-01 0:58 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
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