On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 01:59:06PM -0400, Sandy Harris wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Jason Cooper <ja...@lakedaemon.net> wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 11:09:40PM -0400, Sandy Harris wrote: > >> There was recently a patch to the random driver to replace memset() > >> because, according to the submitter, gcc sometimes optimises memset() > >> away which might leave data unnecessarily exposed. The solution > >> suggested was a function called memzero_explicit(). There was a fair > >> bit of discussion and the patch was accepted. > > > > Do you have a pointer? > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/25/497
Ok, that was the same thread I found. I was looking for the 'fair bit of discussion' part. ;-) thx, Jason. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
