Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752731AbaK3RHw (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:07:52 -0500 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.104]:13407 "EHLO mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752098AbaK3RF1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:05:27 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,488,1413237600"; d="scan'208";a="91114603" From: Julia Lawall To: Herbert Xu Cc: dborkman@redhat.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall Subject: [PATCH 3/8] crypto: replace memset by memzero_explicit Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:59:29 +0100 Message-Id: <1417366774-32412-4-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. arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c | 2 +- arch/x86/crypto/sha512_ssse3_glue.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/sha512_ssse3_glue.c b/arch/x86/crypto/sha512_ssse3_glue.c index 26a5898..0b6af26 100644 --- a/arch/x86/crypto/sha512_ssse3_glue.c +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/sha512_ssse3_glue.c @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static int sha384_ssse3_final(struct shash_desc *desc, u8 *hash) sha512_ssse3_final(desc, D); memcpy(hash, D, SHA384_DIGEST_SIZE); - memset(D, 0, SHA512_DIGEST_SIZE); + memzero_explicit(D, SHA512_DIGEST_SIZE); return 0; } diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c b/arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c index 4dc100d..8fad72f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static int sha224_ssse3_final(struct shash_desc *desc, u8 *hash) sha256_ssse3_final(desc, D); memcpy(hash, D, SHA224_DIGEST_SIZE); - memset(D, 0, SHA256_DIGEST_SIZE); + memzero_explicit(D, SHA256_DIGEST_SIZE); return 0; } -- 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/