From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libuuid: use explicit_bzero() in uuid_clear() when possible
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:15:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171018071531.GA2929@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171016213734.23237-1-kerolasa@iki.fi>
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:37:34PM +0100, Sami Kerola wrote:
> This ensures value is blanked. It is possible compiler optimization removed
> earlier uuid_clear() calls as unnecessary if value was not used after clear.
Can you explain the logic behind this a bit more? If no one uses the
uuid later it doesn't matter if we cleared it or not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-18 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-16 21:37 [PATCH] libuuid: use explicit_bzero() in uuid_clear() when possible Sami Kerola
2017-10-18 7:15 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-10-23 19:38 ` Sami Kerola
2017-10-24 9:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
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