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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-04 19:18:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-04 19:18:29 -0700
commit886d7de631da71e30909980fdbf318f7caade262 (patch)
treed79c741b609098ec8c8a3643ba52f26e6a2cd4d1 /mm/util.c
parent5bfea2d9b17f1034a68147a8b03b9789af5700f9 (diff)
parent469cbd016157d28c27fda8da6ddc76b856f4e1b9 (diff)
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton: - More MM work. 100ish more to go. Mike Rapoport's "mm: remove __ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK" series should fix the current ppc issue - Various other little subsystems * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (127 commits) lib/ubsan.c: fix gcc-10 warnings tools/testing/selftests/vm: remove duplicate headers selftests: vm: pkeys: fix multilib builds for x86 selftests: vm: pkeys: use the correct page size on powerpc selftests/vm/pkeys: override access right definitions on powerpc selftests/vm/pkeys: test correct behaviour of pkey-0 selftests/vm/pkeys: introduce a sub-page allocator selftests/vm/pkeys: detect write violation on a mapped access-denied-key page selftests/vm/pkeys: associate key on a mapped page and detect write violation selftests/vm/pkeys: associate key on a mapped page and detect access violation selftests/vm/pkeys: improve checks to determine pkey support selftests/vm/pkeys: fix assertion in test_pkey_alloc_exhaust() selftests/vm/pkeys: fix number of reserved powerpc pkeys selftests/vm/pkeys: introduce powerpc support selftests/vm/pkeys: introduce generic pkey abstractions selftests: vm: pkeys: use the correct huge page size selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really random selftests/vm/pkeys: fix assertion in pkey_disable_set/clear() selftests/vm/pkeys: fix pkey_disable_clear() selftests: vm: pkeys: add helpers for pkey bits ...
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/util.c22
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 41b47d8cae09..cd62e6fb5318 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -604,6 +604,24 @@ void kvfree(const void *addr)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvfree);
+/**
+ * kvfree_sensitive - Free a data object containing sensitive information.
+ * @addr: address of the data object to be freed.
+ * @len: length of the data object.
+ *
+ * Use the special memzero_explicit() function to clear the content of a
+ * kvmalloc'ed object containing sensitive data to make sure that the
+ * compiler won't optimize out the data clearing.
+ */
+void kvfree_sensitive(const void *addr, size_t len)
+{
+ if (likely(!ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(addr))) {
+ memzero_explicit((void *)addr, len);
+ kvfree(addr);
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvfree_sensitive);
+
static inline void *__page_rmapping(struct page *page)
{
unsigned long mapping;
@@ -796,10 +814,6 @@ int __vm_enough_memory(struct mm_struct *mm, long pages, int cap_sys_admin)
{
long allowed;
- VM_WARN_ONCE(percpu_counter_read(&vm_committed_as) <
- -(s64)vm_committed_as_batch * num_online_cpus(),
- "memory commitment underflow");
-
vm_acct_memory(pages);
/*