Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752622AbaK3RFi (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:05:38 -0500 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.104]:6028 "EHLO mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752479AbaK3RFb (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:05:31 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,488,1413237600"; d="scan'208";a="91114604" From: Julia Lawall To: Steve French Cc: dborkman@redhat.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall Subject: [PATCH 4/8] cifs: replace memset by memzero_explicit Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:59:30 +0100 Message-Id: <1417366774-32412-5-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.2 In-Reply-To: <1417366774-32412-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> References: <1417366774-32412-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Julia Lawall Memset on a local variable may be removed when it is called just before the variable goes out of scope. Using memzero_explicit defeats this optimization. A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ identifier x; type T; @@ { ... when any T x[...]; ... when any when exists - memset + memzero_explicit (x, -0, ...) ... when != x when strict } // This change was suggested by Daniel Borkmann Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall --- Daniel Borkmann suggested that these patches could go through Herbert Xu's cryptodev tree. fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c b/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c index 6c15663..6512c19 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c +++ b/fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ E_md4hash(const unsigned char *passwd, unsigned char *p16, } rc = mdfour(p16, (unsigned char *) wpwd, len * sizeof(__le16)); - memset(wpwd, 0, 129 * sizeof(__le16)); + memzero_explicit(wpwd, 129 * sizeof(__le16)); return rc; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/