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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2009-02-21 02:38:41 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-02-21 04:57:48 +0300
commit3ef0e5ba467366125f04b423f4638baca54a4fc1 (patch)
treecfe7b95c7b19b1d5b2a8534fa9791d6026e49dcd /mm/util.c
parentd9190913b71831f5e3d04de62cfb1fd069a9db35 (diff)
downloadlinux-3ef0e5ba467366125f04b423f4638baca54a4fc1.tar.xz
slab: introduce kzfree()
kzfree() is a wrapper for kfree() that additionally zeroes the underlying memory before releasing it to the slab allocator. Currently there is code which memset()s the memory region of an object before releasing it back to the slab allocator to make sure security-sensitive data are really zeroed out after use. These callsites can then just use kzfree() which saves some code, makes users greppable and allows for a stupid destructor that isn't necessarily aware of the actual object size. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index cb00b748ce47..37eaccdf3054 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -129,6 +129,26 @@ void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc);
+/**
+ * kzfree - like kfree but zero memory
+ * @p: object to free memory of
+ *
+ * The memory of the object @p points to is zeroed before freed.
+ * If @p is %NULL, kzfree() does nothing.
+ */
+void kzfree(const void *p)
+{
+ size_t ks;
+ void *mem = (void *)p;
+
+ if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(mem)))
+ return;
+ ks = ksize(mem);
+ memset(mem, 0, ks);
+ kfree(mem);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree);
+
/*
* strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space
* @s: The string to duplicate