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Author: ASF GitHub Bot
Created on: 22/Mar/21 04:06
Start Date: 22/Mar/21 04:06
Worklog Time Spent: 10m
Work Description: GauthamBanasandra commented on pull request #2793:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/2793#issuecomment-803745234
This page describes why we should prefer using `explicit_bzero` over `bzero`
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https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Erasing-Sensitive-Data.html.
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Worklog Id: (was: 569523)
Time Spent: 40m (was: 0.5h)
> Replace bzero with explicit_bzero for better safety
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> Key: HDFS-15910
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-15910
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: libhdfs++
> Affects Versions: 3.2.2
> Reporter: Gautham Banasandra
> Assignee: Gautham Banasandra
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Time Spent: 40m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> It is better to always use explicit_bzero since it guarantees that the buffer
> will be cleared irrespective of the compiler optimizations -
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/bzero.3.html.
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