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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 22:58:11 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8 v2] sparc64: replace memset by memzero_explicit
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 06:03:43PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
> 
> 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/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> identifier x;
> type T;
> @@
> 
> {
> ... when any
> T x[...];
> ... when any
>     when exists
> - memset
> + memzero_explicit
>   (x,
> -0,
>   ...)
> ... when != x
>     when strict
> }
> // </smpl>
> 
> This change was suggested by Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>

Applied patches 2, 3, 6, 7.
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