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authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>2020-08-07 08:18:13 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-08-07 20:33:22 +0200
commit453431a54934d917153c65211b2dabf45562ca88 (patch)
treee9672e7fb28f59331ff00fe6197360d703cbd9c3 /security/keys/user_defined.c
parentocfs2: fix unbalanced locking (diff)
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mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
As said by Linus: A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use. Otherwise it's actively misleading. In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the caller wants. In "kzfree()", the z is actively detrimental, because maybe in the future we really _might_ want to use that "memfill(0xdeadbeef)" or something. The "zero" part of the interface isn't even _relevant_. The main reason that kzfree() exists is to clear sensitive information that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory objects. Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() to follow the example of the recently added kvfree_sensitive() and make the intention of the API more explicit. In addition, memzero_explicit() is used to clear the memory to make sure that it won't get optimized away by the compiler. The renaming is done by using the command sequence: git grep -w --name-only kzfree |\ xargs sed -i 's/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/' followed by some editing of the kfree_sensitive() kerneldoc and adding a kzfree backward compatibility macro in slab.h. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c needs linux/slab.h] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c some more] Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-3-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/keys/user_defined.c')
-rw-r--r--security/keys/user_defined.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/user_defined.c b/security/keys/user_defined.c
index 07d4287e9084..749e2a4dcb13 100644
--- a/security/keys/user_defined.c
+++ b/security/keys/user_defined.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(user_preparse);
*/
void user_free_preparse(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep)
{
- kzfree(prep->payload.data[0]);
+ kfree_sensitive(prep->payload.data[0]);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(user_free_preparse);
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static void user_free_payload_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
struct user_key_payload *payload;
payload = container_of(head, struct user_key_payload, rcu);
- kzfree(payload);
+ kfree_sensitive(payload);
}
/*
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ void user_destroy(struct key *key)
{
struct user_key_payload *upayload = key->payload.data[0];
- kzfree(upayload);
+ kfree_sensitive(upayload);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(user_destroy);