Re: [PATCH] mm: Add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects

From: David Rientjes
Date: Mon Apr 06 2020 - 19:20:16 EST


On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, David Howells wrote:

> David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > +static inline void kvfree_sensitive(const void *addr, size_t len)
> > > +{
> > > + if (addr) {
> >
> > Shouldn't this be if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(addr))?
>
> You've reversed the logic - it needs a '!' there.
>

Ah lol, yeah. Probably just better to do

if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(addr)))
return;

but I agree that mm.h is likely not the right spot.