From bec500777089b3c96c53681fc0aa6fee59711d4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arvind Sankar Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 18:00:02 -0400 Subject: lib/string: Make memzero_explicit() inline instead of external With the use of the barrier implied by barrier_data(), there is no need for memzero_explicit() to be extern. Making it inline saves the overhead of a function call, and allows the code to be reused in arch/*/purgatory without having to duplicate the implementation. Tested-by: Hans de Goede Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: H . Peter Anvin Cc: Herbert Xu Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephan Mueller Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 906a4bb97f5d ("crypto: sha256 - Use get/put_unaligned_be32 to get input, memzero_explicit") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191007220000.GA408752@rani.riverdale.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/string.h | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/string.h') diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h index b2f9df7f0761..b6ccdc2c7f02 100644 --- a/include/linux/string.h +++ b/include/linux/string.h @@ -227,7 +227,26 @@ static inline bool strstarts(const char *str, const char *prefix) } size_t memweight(const void *ptr, size_t bytes); -void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count); + +/** + * memzero_explicit - Fill a region of memory (e.g. sensitive + * keying data) with 0s. + * @s: Pointer to the start of the area. + * @count: The size of the area. + * + * Note: usually using memset() is just fine (!), but in cases + * where clearing out _local_ data at the end of a scope is + * necessary, memzero_explicit() should be used instead in + * order to prevent the compiler from optimising away zeroing. + * + * memzero_explicit() doesn't need an arch-specific version as + * it just invokes the one of memset() implicitly. + */ +static inline void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count) +{ + memset(s, 0, count); + barrier_data(s); +} /** * kbasename - return the last part of a pathname. -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b