Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: Add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects | Date | Mon, 06 Apr 2020 17:26:29 +0100 |
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Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> While I agree with Linus about the __ prefix, > the z is pretty common and symmetric to all > the <foo>zalloc uses. > > And if _sensitive is actually used, it'd be > good to do a s/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/ one day > sooner than later.
How much overhead would it be to always use kvfree_sensitive() and never have a kfree_sensitive()?
David
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