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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 0/7] kzfree() v2
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:26:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090217182615.897042724@cmpxchg.org> (raw)

This series introduces kzfree() and converts callsites which do
memset() + kzfree() explicitely.

The caller intention is to ensure that security-sensitive data are
cleared from slab objects before they are passed back to the
allocator.

This also removes the last modular ksize() user (crypto/api.c) again
by converting it to kzfree() which figures out the length of the
memory region to zero internally.

I left out drivers/w1/w1{,_int}.c and dropped the conversion of
drivers/atm/mpoa_caches.c in this iteration as I think they don't
strictly need the zeroeing and the memsetting should probably be
removed [ added Chas Williams and Evgeniy Polyakov to Cc ].

v2:
  - EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree), thanks linker
  - remove superfluous NULL checks, thanks Pekka
  - mention `security' in the description

	Hannes

 arch/s390/crypto/prng.c             |    3 +--
 crypto/api.c                        |    5 +----
 drivers/md/dm-crypt.c               |    6 ++----
 drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_pcixcc.c |    3 +--
 drivers/usb/host/hwa-hc.c           |    3 +--
 drivers/usb/wusbcore/cbaf.c         |    3 +--
 fs/cifs/connect.c                   |    6 +-----
 fs/cifs/misc.c                      |   10 ++--------
 fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c              |    3 +--
 fs/ecryptfs/messaging.c             |    3 +--
 include/linux/slab.h                |    1 +
 mm/util.c                           |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 12 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

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             reply	other threads:[~2009-02-17 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-17 18:26 Johannes Weiner [this message]
2009-02-17 18:26 ` [patch 1/7] slab: introduce kzfree() Johannes Weiner
2009-02-17 20:06   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-18 10:50   ` David Vrabel
2009-02-18 10:54     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-19  1:22       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-02-19  9:13         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-19 12:12           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-02-19 16:34           ` Hugh Dickins
2009-02-19 18:02             ` Matt Mackall
2009-02-19 18:28               ` Hugh Dickins
2009-02-19 19:45                 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-19 20:36                   ` Hugh Dickins
2009-02-23 14:01                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-23 14:51                       ` Hugh Dickins
2009-02-23 15:07                         ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-23 19:42                         ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-19 19:48                 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-02-17 18:26 ` [patch 2/7] crypto: use kzfree() Johannes Weiner
2009-02-20  4:53   ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-17 18:26 ` [patch 3/7] s390: " Johannes Weiner
2009-02-17 18:26 ` [patch 4/7] md: " Johannes Weiner
2009-02-17 18:26 ` [patch 5/7] usb: " Johannes Weiner
2009-02-18 10:51   ` David Vrabel
2009-02-17 18:26 ` [patch 6/7] cifs: " Johannes Weiner
2009-02-17 18:26 ` [patch 7/7] ecryptfs: " Johannes Weiner

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