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Commit f43c2394 authored by Julia Lawall's avatar Julia Lawall Committed by Herbert Xu
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crypto: arm - replace memset by memzero_explicit



Memset on a local variable may be removed when it is called just before the
variable goes out of scope.  Using memzero_explicit defeats this
optimization.  A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this
change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
identifier x;
type T;
@@

{
... when any
T x[...];
... when any
    when exists
- memset
+ memzero_explicit
  (x,
-0,
  ...)
... when != x
    when strict
}
// </smpl>

This change was suggested by Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: default avatarJulia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Acked-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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