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>
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@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ static int tipc_aead_init(struct tipc_aead **aead, struct tipc_aead_key *ukey,
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/* Allocate per-cpu TFM entry pointer */
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tmp->tfm_entry = alloc_percpu(struct tipc_tfm *);
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if (!tmp->tfm_entry) {
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kzfree(tmp);
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kfree_sensitive(tmp);
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return -ENOMEM;
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}
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@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ static int tipc_aead_init(struct tipc_aead **aead, struct tipc_aead_key *ukey,
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/* Not any TFM is allocated? */
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if (!tfm_cnt) {
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free_percpu(tmp->tfm_entry);
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kzfree(tmp);
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kfree_sensitive(tmp);
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return err;
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}
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@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ static int tipc_aead_clone(struct tipc_aead **dst, struct tipc_aead *src)
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aead->tfm_entry = alloc_percpu_gfp(struct tipc_tfm *, GFP_ATOMIC);
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if (unlikely(!aead->tfm_entry)) {
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kzfree(aead);
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kfree_sensitive(aead);
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return -ENOMEM;
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}
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@@ -1352,7 +1352,7 @@ int tipc_crypto_start(struct tipc_crypto **crypto, struct net *net,
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/* Allocate statistic structure */
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c->stats = alloc_percpu_gfp(struct tipc_crypto_stats, GFP_ATOMIC);
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if (!c->stats) {
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kzfree(c);
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kfree_sensitive(c);
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return -ENOMEM;
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}
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@@ -1408,7 +1408,7 @@ void tipc_crypto_stop(struct tipc_crypto **crypto)
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free_percpu(c->stats);
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*crypto = NULL;
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kzfree(c);
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kfree_sensitive(c);
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}
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void tipc_crypto_timeout(struct tipc_crypto *rx)
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