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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 /drivers/net/wireless
parent57c720d4144a9c2b88105c3e8f7b0e97e4b5cc93 (diff)
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 'drivers/net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/rx.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/tx-gen2.c6
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c6
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/wext.c4
4 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/rx.c
index 24cb1b1f21f0..9463c108aa96 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/rx.c
@@ -1369,7 +1369,7 @@ static void iwl_pcie_rx_handle_rb(struct iwl_trans *trans,
&rxcb, rxq->id);
if (reclaim) {
- kzfree(txq->entries[cmd_index].free_buf);
+ kfree_sensitive(txq->entries[cmd_index].free_buf);
txq->entries[cmd_index].free_buf = NULL;
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/tx-gen2.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/tx-gen2.c
index 7fc7542535d8..606bef2ecc7b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/tx-gen2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/tx-gen2.c
@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ static int iwl_pcie_gen2_enqueue_hcmd(struct iwl_trans *trans,
BUILD_BUG_ON(IWL_TFH_NUM_TBS > sizeof(out_meta->tbs) * BITS_PER_BYTE);
out_meta->flags = cmd->flags;
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(txq->entries[idx].free_buf))
- kzfree(txq->entries[idx].free_buf);
+ kfree_sensitive(txq->entries[idx].free_buf);
txq->entries[idx].free_buf = dup_buf;
trace_iwlwifi_dev_hcmd(trans->dev, cmd, cmd_size, &out_cmd->hdr_wide);
@@ -1257,8 +1257,8 @@ static void iwl_pcie_gen2_txq_free(struct iwl_trans *trans, int txq_id)
/* De-alloc array of command/tx buffers */
if (txq_id == trans->txqs.cmd.q_id)
for (i = 0; i < txq->n_window; i++) {
- kzfree(txq->entries[i].cmd);
- kzfree(txq->entries[i].free_buf);
+ kfree_sensitive(txq->entries[i].cmd);
+ kfree_sensitive(txq->entries[i].free_buf);
}
del_timer_sync(&txq->stuck_timer);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c
index 5c6c3fa0d29f..eb396c06b7fb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c
@@ -721,8 +721,8 @@ static void iwl_pcie_txq_free(struct iwl_trans *trans, int txq_id)
/* De-alloc array of command/tx buffers */
if (txq_id == trans->txqs.cmd.q_id)
for (i = 0; i < txq->n_window; i++) {
- kzfree(txq->entries[i].cmd);
- kzfree(txq->entries[i].free_buf);
+ kfree_sensitive(txq->entries[i].cmd);
+ kfree_sensitive(txq->entries[i].free_buf);
}
/* De-alloc circular buffer of TFDs */
@@ -1765,7 +1765,7 @@ static int iwl_pcie_enqueue_hcmd(struct iwl_trans *trans,
BUILD_BUG_ON(IWL_TFH_NUM_TBS > sizeof(out_meta->tbs) * BITS_PER_BYTE);
out_meta->flags = cmd->flags;
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(txq->entries[idx].free_buf))
- kzfree(txq->entries[idx].free_buf);
+ kfree_sensitive(txq->entries[idx].free_buf);
txq->entries[idx].free_buf = dup_buf;
trace_iwlwifi_dev_hcmd(trans->dev, cmd, cmd_size, &out_cmd->hdr_wide);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/wext.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/wext.c
index 1d4dae422106..7b6c4ae8ddb3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/wext.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/wext.c
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ static int orinoco_set_key(struct orinoco_private *priv, int index,
enum orinoco_alg alg, const u8 *key, int key_len,
const u8 *seq, int seq_len)
{
- kzfree(priv->keys[index].key);
- kzfree(priv->keys[index].seq);
+ kfree_sensitive(priv->keys[index].key);
+ kfree_sensitive(priv->keys[index].seq);
if (key_len) {
priv->keys[index].key = kzalloc(key_len, GFP_ATOMIC);