linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: api: add kzfree script

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Message-ID: <e4981fd76a88e18376c4e634c235501b57d321e7.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Thu, 04 Jun 2020 09:27:43 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>,
        Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:     cocci@...teme.lip6.fr, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: api: add kzfree script

On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 17:08 +0300, Denis Efremov wrote:
> Check for memset() with 0 followed by kfree().

Perhaps those uses should be memzero_explicit or kvfree_sensitive.