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authorJohannes Weiner <[email protected]>2009-02-20 15:38:41 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2009-02-20 17:57:48 -0800
commit3ef0e5ba467366125f04b423f4638baca54a4fc1 (patch)
treecfe7b95c7b19b1d5b2a8534fa9791d6026e49dcd /lib/string_helpers.c
parentd9190913b71831f5e3d04de62cfb1fd069a9db35 (diff)
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 <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> Cc: Matt Mackall <[email protected]> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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