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

[Daniel Borkmann]

On 12/01/2014 12:29 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 12:04:57PM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> > Well, BSD has helpers such as bzero_explicit() for such cases to work
> > around this, which memzero_explicit() similarly does; see also [1].
> >
> >    [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2014-10/msg00059.html
>
> We should make memset() a define and call a custom function internally.
>
> Otherwise there are thousands of calls to memset() which we would need
> to audit.  We could do some of this automatically but it's going to be a
> mess.

Sort of, yeah; for now random driver and crypto subsystem, which I consider
the main candidates, have been converted and with Julia's latest patch set
from today (via coccinelle) also remaining arch-specific crypto drivers.
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