Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Dec 2014 14:29:57 +0300 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data |
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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.
regards, dan carpenter
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