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author | Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> | 2020-08-07 08:18:13 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-07 20:33:22 +0200 |
commit | 453431a54934d917153c65211b2dabf45562ca88 (patch) | |
tree | e9672e7fb28f59331ff00fe6197360d703cbd9c3 /security/keys/user_defined.c | |
parent | ocfs2: fix unbalanced locking (diff) | |
download | linux-453431a54934d917153c65211b2dabf45562ca88.tar.xz linux-453431a54934d917153c65211b2dabf45562ca88.zip |
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.c | 6 |
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); |