Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932849Ab0BYQRH (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:17:07 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f219.google.com ([209.85.220.219]:51233 "EHLO mail-fx0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932810Ab0BYQRE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:17:04 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=pFbmgbTVZ7hH0dJBdprMux4GqHVghQH7exuwXMD/iLWs3vsnkhw0lNQ9TMapUcfjia EdIwAYo5wNCYqbPkVRhmP0Hjtn5+uASMlEdLVlLaYdGCVJ+VUQMSIDGCBzY6+v9W+sxD BUCtgM3MqxqNuRtO0LgGDhbpyydwvapGTXXUY= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19334.40337.651079.440912@pilspetsen.it.uu.se> References: <4B8692E3.9030509@gmail.com> <19334.40337.651079.440912@pilspetsen.it.uu.se> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:16:59 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9cbee3a0ee9930f6 Message-ID: <84144f021002250816o2c2cef0fke484c7e43256dba4@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] sha: prevent removal of memset as dead store in sha1_update() From: Pekka Enberg To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: Roel Kluin , Herbert Xu , "David S. Miller" , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 924 Lines: 27 On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > I fear that the only portable (across compiler versions) and safe > solution is to invoke an assembly-coded dummy function with prototype > > ? ? ? ?void use(void *p); > > and rewrite the code above as > > ? ? ? ?{ > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?u32 temp[...]; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?... > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?memset(temp, 0, sizeof temp); > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?use(temp); > ? ? ? ?} > > This forces the compiler to consider the buffer live after the > memset, so the memset cannot be eliminated. So is there some "do not optimize" GCC magic that we could use for a memzero_secret() helper function? Pekka -- 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/