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authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>2020-08-06 23:18:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-08-07 11:33:22 -0700
commit453431a54934d917153c65211b2dabf45562ca88 (patch)
treee9672e7fb28f59331ff00fe6197360d703cbd9c3 /scripts
parent57c720d4144a9c2b88105c3e8f7b0e97e4b5cc93 (diff)
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mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
As said by Linus: A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use. Otherwise it's actively misleading. In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the caller wants. In "kzfree()", the z is actively detrimental, because maybe in the future we really _might_ want to use that "memfill(0xdeadbeef)" or something. The "zero" part of the interface isn't even _relevant_. The main reason that kzfree() exists is to clear sensitive information that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory objects. Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() to follow the example of the recently added kvfree_sensitive() and make the intention of the API more explicit. In addition, memzero_explicit() is used to clear the memory to make sure that it won't get optimized away by the compiler. The renaming is done by using the command sequence: git grep -w --name-only kzfree |\ xargs sed -i 's/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/' followed by some editing of the kfree_sensitive() kerneldoc and adding a kzfree backward compatibility macro in slab.h. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c needs linux/slab.h] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c some more] Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-3-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rw-r--r--scripts/coccinelle/free/devm_free.cocci4
-rw-r--r--scripts/coccinelle/free/ifnullfree.cocci4
-rw-r--r--scripts/coccinelle/free/kfree.cocci6
-rw-r--r--scripts/coccinelle/free/kfreeaddr.cocci2
4 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/free/devm_free.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/free/devm_free.cocci
index 3357bf4dbd7c..da80050b91ff 100644
--- a/scripts/coccinelle/free/devm_free.cocci
+++ b/scripts/coccinelle/free/devm_free.cocci
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ position p;
(
kfree@p(x)
|
- kzfree@p(x)
+ kfree_sensitive@p(x)
|
krealloc@p(x, ...)
|
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ position p != safe.p;
(
* kfree@p(x)
|
-* kzfree@p(x)
+* kfree_sensitive@p(x)
|
* krealloc@p(x, ...)
|
diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/free/ifnullfree.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/free/ifnullfree.cocci
index b3290c4ee239..2045391e36a0 100644
--- a/scripts/coccinelle/free/ifnullfree.cocci
+++ b/scripts/coccinelle/free/ifnullfree.cocci
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ expression E;
(
kfree(E);
|
- kzfree(E);
+ kfree_sensitive(E);
|
debugfs_remove(E);
|
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ position p;
@@
* if (E != NULL)
-* \(kfree@p\|kzfree@p\|debugfs_remove@p\|debugfs_remove_recursive@p\|
+* \(kfree@p\|kfree_sensitive@p\|debugfs_remove@p\|debugfs_remove_recursive@p\|
* usb_free_urb@p\|kmem_cache_destroy@p\|mempool_destroy@p\|
* dma_pool_destroy@p\)(E);
diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/free/kfree.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/free/kfree.cocci
index e9d50e718e46..168568386034 100644
--- a/scripts/coccinelle/free/kfree.cocci
+++ b/scripts/coccinelle/free/kfree.cocci
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ position p1;
(
* kfree@p1(E)
|
-* kzfree@p1(E)
+* kfree_sensitive@p1(E)
)
@print expression@
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ while (1) { ...
(
* kfree@ok(E)
|
-* kzfree@ok(E)
+* kfree_sensitive@ok(E)
)
... when != break;
when != goto l;
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ position free.p1!=loop.ok,p2!={print.p,sz.p};
(
* kfree@p1(E,...)
|
-* kzfree@p1(E,...)
+* kfree_sensitive@p1(E,...)
)
...
(
diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/free/kfreeaddr.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/free/kfreeaddr.cocci
index cfaf308328d8..142af6337a04 100644
--- a/scripts/coccinelle/free/kfreeaddr.cocci
+++ b/scripts/coccinelle/free/kfreeaddr.cocci
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ position p;
(
* kfree@p(&e->f)
|
-* kzfree@p(&e->f)
+* kfree_sensitive@p(&e->f)
)
@script:python depends on org@