From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: memzero_explicit: add comment for its usage Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 21:49:02 +1100 Message-ID: <20150108104901.GC8374@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1420500465-6522-1-git-send-email-dborkman@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Borkmann Return-path: Received: from helcar.apana.org.au ([209.40.204.226]:41833 "EHLO helcar.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756292AbbAHKtF (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2015 05:49:05 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1420500465-6522-1-git-send-email-dborkman@redhat.com> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 12:27:45AM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote: > Lets improve the comment to add a note on when to use memzero_explicit() > for those not digging through the git logs. We don't want people to > pollute places with memzero_explicit() where it's not really necessary. > > Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/4/190 > Suggested-by: Herbert Xu > Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Applied. -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt