Re: [patch 1/8] slab: introduce kzfree()

[Johannes Weiner]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 03:29:27PM +0100, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> kzfree() is a wrapper for kfree() that additionally zeroes the
> underlying memory before releasing it to the slab allocator.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/slab.h |    1 +
>  mm/util.c            |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/include/linux/slab.h
> +++ b/include/linux/slab.h
> @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ int kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache 
>  void * __must_check __krealloc(const void *, size_t, gfp_t);
>  void * __must_check krealloc(const void *, size_t, gfp_t);
>  void kfree(const void *);
> +void kzfree(const void *);
>  size_t ksize(const void *);
>  
>  /*
> --- a/mm/util.c
> +++ b/mm/util.c
> @@ -129,6 +129,25 @@ void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc);
>  
> +/**
> + * kzfree - like kfree but zero memory
> + * @p: object to free memory of
> + *
> + * The memory of the object @p points to is zeroed before freed.
> + * If @p is %NULL, kzfree() does nothing.
> + */
> +void kzfree(const void *p)
> +{
> +	size_t ks;
> +	void *mem = (void *)p;
> +
> +	if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(mem)))
> +		return;
> +	ks = ksize(mem);
> +	memset(mem, 0, ks);
> +	kfree(mem);
> +}

Sorry, please fold this delta:

--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ void kzfree(const void *p)
 	memset(mem, 0, ks);
 	kfree(mem);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree);
 
 /*
  * strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space
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