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From: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Subject: [PATCH] libuuid: use explicit_bzero() in uuid_clear() when possible
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:37:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171016213734.23237-1-kerolasa@iki.fi> (raw)

This ensures value is blanked.  It is possible compiler optimization removed
earlier uuid_clear() calls as unnecessary if value was not used after clear.

Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
---
 libuuid/src/clear.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libuuid/src/clear.c b/libuuid/src/clear.c
index 2d91fee93..5b1392464 100644
--- a/libuuid/src/clear.c
+++ b/libuuid/src/clear.c
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@
 
 void uuid_clear(uuid_t uu)
 {
+#ifdef HAVE_EXPLICIT_BZERO
+	explicit_bzero(uu, 16);
+#else
 	memset(uu, 0, 16);
+#endif
 }
 
-- 
2.14.2


             reply	other threads:[~2017-10-16 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-16 21:37 Sami Kerola [this message]
2017-10-18  7:15 ` [PATCH] libuuid: use explicit_bzero() in uuid_clear() when possible Christoph Hellwig
2017-10-23 19:38   ` Sami Kerola
2017-10-24  9:30     ` Christoph Hellwig

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