On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 12:04:57PM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote: > Well, BSD has helpers such as bzero_explicit() for such cases to work > around this, which memzero_explicit() similarly does; see also [1]. > > [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2014-10/msg00059.html
We should make memset() a define and call a custom function internally. Otherwise there are thousands of calls to memset() which we would need to audit. We could do some of this automatically but it's going to be a mess. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
