linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] random: add and use memzero

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Message-ID: <53FB9EBF.1050108@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:38:23 +0200
From:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
CC:	tytso@....edu, zatimend@...mail.co.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data

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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