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mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()

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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>
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Waiman Long
2020-08-06 23:18:13 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 57c720d414
commit 453431a549
114 changed files with 323 additions and 320 deletions
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@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ void __cfg80211_connect_result(struct net_device *dev,
}
if (cr->status != WLAN_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
kzfree(wdev->connect_keys);
kfree_sensitive(wdev->connect_keys);
wdev->connect_keys = NULL;
wdev->ssid_len = 0;
wdev->conn_owner_nlportid = 0;
@ -1098,7 +1098,7 @@ void __cfg80211_disconnected(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *ie,
wdev->current_bss = NULL;
wdev->ssid_len = 0;
wdev->conn_owner_nlportid = 0;
kzfree(wdev->connect_keys);
kfree_sensitive(wdev->connect_keys);
wdev->connect_keys = NULL;
nl80211_send_disconnected(rdev, dev, reason, ie, ie_len, from_ap);
@ -1281,7 +1281,7 @@ int cfg80211_disconnect(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
ASSERT_WDEV_LOCK(wdev);
kzfree(wdev->connect_keys);
kfree_sensitive(wdev->connect_keys);
wdev->connect_keys = NULL;
wdev->conn_owner_nlportid = 0;