ich777/linux_media
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/tbsdtv/linux_media.git synced 2025-07-24 05:01:03 +02:00
Code Issues Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()

Browse Source 
As said by Linus:

  A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use.
  Otherwise it's actively misleading.

  In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the
  caller wants.

  In "kzfree()", the z is actively detrimental, because maybe in the
  future we really _might_ want to use that "memfill(0xdeadbeef)" or
  something. The "zero" part of the interface isn't even _relevant_.

The main reason that kzfree() exists is to clear sensitive information
that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory
objects.

Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() to follow the example of the recently
added kvfree_sensitive() and make the intention of the API more explicit.
In addition, memzero_explicit() is used to clear the memory to make sure
that it won't get optimized away by the compiler.

The renaming is done by using the command sequence:

  git grep -w --name-only kzfree |\
  xargs sed -i 's/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/'

followed by some editing of the kfree_sensitive() kerneldoc and adding
a kzfree backward compatibility macro in slab.h.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c needs linux/slab.h]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c some more]

Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-3-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Waiman Long
2020-08-06 23:18:13 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 57c720d414
commit 453431a549
114 changed files with 323 additions and 320 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

6
lib/mpi/mpiutil.c
View File

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ void mpi_free_limb_space(mpi_ptr_t a)
if (!a)
return;
kzfree(a);
kfree_sensitive(a);
}
void mpi_assign_limb_space(MPI a, mpi_ptr_t ap, unsigned nlimbs)
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ int mpi_resize(MPI a, unsigned nlimbs)
if (!p)
return -ENOMEM;
memcpy(p, a->d, a->alloced * sizeof(mpi_limb_t));
kzfree(a->d);
kfree_sensitive(a->d);
a->d = p;
} else {
a->d = kcalloc(nlimbs, sizeof(mpi_limb_t), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ void mpi_free(MPI a)
return;
if (a->flags & 4)
kzfree(a->d);
kfree_sensitive(a->d);
else
mpi_free_limb_space(a->d);