Re: [Patch 2.6] dm-crypt: zero key before freeing it

[Jörn Engel]

On Wed, 4 January 2006 12:28:59 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Stefan Rompf wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch 04 Januar 2006 21:09 schrieb Arjan van de Ven:
> >
> > > since a memset right before a free is a very unusual code pattern in the
> > > kernel it may well be worth putting a short comment around it to prevent
> > > someone later removing it as "optimization"
> >
> > Valid objection, here is an update (and see, I'm running 2.6.15 now ;-)
> 
> A reason "why" would be more helpful that a "what".

"prevent information leak"

This is still a "what", but at least not a "how".

Jörn

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