From 453431a54934d917153c65211b2dabf45562ca88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Waiman Long Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 23:18:13 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: David Howells Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen Cc: James Morris Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-3-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- crypto/ecc.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'crypto/ecc.c') diff --git a/crypto/ecc.c b/crypto/ecc.c index 8acf8433ca29..c80aa25994a0 100644 --- a/crypto/ecc.c +++ b/crypto/ecc.c @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ static u64 *ecc_alloc_digits_space(unsigned int ndigits) static void ecc_free_digits_space(u64 *space) { - kzfree(space); + kfree_sensitive(space); } static struct ecc_point *ecc_alloc_point(unsigned int ndigits) @@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ static void ecc_free_point(struct ecc_point *p) if (!p) return; - kzfree(p->x); - kzfree(p->y); - kzfree(p); + kfree_sensitive(p->x); + kfree_sensitive(p->y); + kfree_sensitive(p); } static void vli_clear(u64 *vli, unsigned int ndigits) -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2