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

[Daniel Borkmann]

On 08/25/2014 10:35 PM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 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().

Sure, that's what I wrote in the commit log. But we don't have
bzero(), and I think the name is more clear and conform to
mem*() API.

Best,

Daniel
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