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...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 kzfr...

Hi all, Just finished my prototype of inter-guest virtio, using networking as an example. Each guest mmaps the other's address space and uses a FIFO for notifications. There are two issues with this approach. The first is that neither guest can change its mappings. See patch 1. The second is that our feature configuration is "host presents, guest chooses" which breaks

Hi all, Just finished my prototype of inter-guest virtio, using networking as an example. Each guest mmaps the other's address space and uses a FIFO for notifications. There are two issues with this approach. The first is that neither guest can change its mappings. See patch 1. The second is that our feature configuration is "host presents, guest chooses" which breaks

Well? I?m not convinced KEA can?t be simple DHCP, though I understand that one would never know that from reading the KEA documentation. The following is a complete KEA configuration suitable to do a single subnet. In fact, you could probably get away with slightly less. I?ve replaced the unique addresses from my environment with placeholders (e.g. <network/mask>), but otherwise, this is a

This patchset makes a global rename of the kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() to highlight the fact buffer clearing is only needed if the data objects contain sensitive information like encrpytion key. The fact that kzfree() uses memset() to do the clearing isn't totally safe either as compiler may compile out the clearing in their optimizer. Instead, the new kfree_sensitive() uses

v5: - Break the btrfs patch out as a separate patch to be processed independently. - Update the commit log of patch 1 to make it less scary. - Add a kzfree backward compatibility macro in patch 2. v4: - Break out the memzero_explicit() change as suggested by Dan Carpenter so that it can be backported to stable. - Drop the "crypto: Remove unnecessary

...t 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...

...t 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...

...t 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...

v4: - Break out the memzero_explicit() change as suggested by Dan Carpenter so that it can be backported to stable. - Drop the "crypto: Remove unnecessary memzero_explicit()" patch for now as there can be a bit more discussion on what is best. It will be introduced as a separate patch later on after this one is merged. This patchset makes a global rename of the kzfree()

v4: - Break out the memzero_explicit() change as suggested by Dan Carpenter so that it can be backported to stable. - Drop the "crypto: Remove unnecessary memzero_explicit()" patch for now as there can be a bit more discussion on what is best. It will be introduced as a separate patch later on after this one is merged. This patchset makes a global rename of the kzfree()