Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun8i-ce - use kfree_sensitive to clear and free sensitive data

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Aug 12 2021 - 07:36:25 EST


On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 12:55:25PM +0000, Jason Wang wrote:
> The kfree_sensitive is a kernel API to clear sensitive information
> that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory
> objects and free the memory. Its function is the same as the
> combination of memzero_explicit and kfree. Thus, we can replace the
> combination APIs with the single kfree_sensitive API.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <wangborong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-prng.c | 9 +++------
> drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-trng.c | 3 +--
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Patch applied. Thanks.
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