Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:38:23 +0200 | From | Daniel Borkmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data |
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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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