Re: [PATCH] random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Mon Aug 25 2014 - 16:35:42 EST


On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:01:39PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> +void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count)
> +{
> + memset(s, 0, count);
> + OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(s);
> +}

BSD seems to name it explicit_bzero().

Alexey
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