linux-kernel - Re: crypto: zeroization of sensitive data in af

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Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:19:20 +0100
From:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
To:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
CC:	Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@...il.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: crypto: zeroization of sensitive data in af_alg

On 11/11/2014 05:16 AM, Stephan Mueller wrote:
...
> That is a good idea.
>
> Herbert: I can prepare a patch that uses memzero_explicit. However, your
> current tree does not yet implement that function as it was added to Linus'
> tree after you pulled from it.

Yep, Ted took it [1] on top of the random driver fix as discussed.

   [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7185ad2672a7d50bc384de0e38d90b75d99f3d82
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