linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun8i-ss

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Message-ID: <20210730031033.GC12121@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Fri, 30 Jul 2021 11:10:33 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Jason Wang <wangborong@...rlc.com>
Cc:     clabbe.montjoie@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net, mripard@...nel.org,
        wens@...e.org, jernej.skrabec@...il.com, colin.king@...onical.com,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-sunxi@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun8i-ss - Use kfree_sensitive

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 09:01:04PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> The kfree_sensitive is a kernel API to clear sensitive information
> that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory
> objects and free the memory. Its function is the same as the
> combination of memzero_explicit and kfree. Thus, we can replace the
> combination APIs with the single kfree_sensitive API.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <wangborong@...rlc.com>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ss/sun8i-ss-prng.c | 9 +++------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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